Numerical study of a new negative index material in mid-infrared spectrum

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 25744-25751

  Cheng, Dengmu ^a   Xie, Jianliang ^a   Zhou, Peiheng ^a   Zhang, Huibin ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Deng, Longjiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; MID-INFRARED SPECTRA; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIAL; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENCE; SIMPLE EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; SQUARE RINGS; THIN WIRES;

INFRARED DEVICES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84869025745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025744     Document Type: Article

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