Flexible chiral metamaterials in the terahertz regime: A comparative study of various designs

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1702-1712

  Kenanakis, G ^a,b   Zhao, R ^c   Stavrinidis, A ^a   Konstantinidis, G ^a   Katsarakis, N ^a,b   Kafesaki, M ^a,d   Soukoulis, C M ^a,e   Economou, E N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; CHIRAL PROPERTIES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATE; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; TERAHERTZ;

OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLYIMIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84873442346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001702     Document Type: Article

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