Giant non-reciprocity at the subwavelength scale using angular momentum-biased metamaterials

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sounas, Dimitrios L ^a   Caloz, Christophe ^b   Alù, Andrea ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LINEARITY; MOMENTUM; OPTICAL METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; MAGNETISM; MAGNETO OPTICAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MODULATION; OPTICS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE;

EID: 84884132104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3407     Document Type: Article

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