Physics of the zero-n photonic gap: Fundamentals and latest developments

Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 181-198

  Zhou, Lei ^a   Song, Zhengyong ^a   Huang, Xueqin ^b   Chan, C T ^b   Engheta, Nader ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Left handed materials; Meta materials; Photonic band gaps; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTION;

BEAM MANIPULATIONS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; LATEST DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIAL; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; SCALING INVARIANCE; SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATIONS;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84877761508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0020     Document Type: Review

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