Giant circular dichroism and negative refractive index of chiral metamaterial based on split-ring resonators

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 421-432

  Cheng, Yongzhi ^a   Nie, Yan ^a   Wu, Lin ^a   Gong, Rongzhou ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DICHROISM; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE RESONATORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONATORS; RING GAGES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CHIRAL METAMATERIAL; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; EFFECTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC PARAMETERS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; RIGHT CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; SIMULATION CALCULATION; SPLIT RING RESONATOR;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84875929128     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER13011202     Document Type: Article

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