Self-organization approach for THz polaritonic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14663-14682

  Reyes Coronado, A ^a,b   Acosta, M F ^c   Merino, R I ^c   Orera, V M ^c   Kenanakis, G ^a,d   Katsarakis, N ^a,d   Kafesaki, M ^a,e   Mavidis, Ch ^a,e   Garcia De Abajo J ^f   Economou, E N ^a   Soukoulis, C M ^a,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón   (Spain)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTECTICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; FAR INFRARED; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECULAR REFLECTANCE;

SOLIDIFICATION;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84863743779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014663     Document Type: Article

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