Polarization properties in helical metamaterials

Frontiers of Optoelectronics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 248-255

  Yang, Zhenyu ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Xie, Peiyuan ^b   Wu, Lin ^a   Lu, Zeqin ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hunan Electric Power Company Dispatches and Communication Center   (China)

Author keywords

chiral media; finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; helical metamaterials; polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873872071     PISSN: 20952759     EISSN: 20952767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12200-012-0267-9     Document Type: Review

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