Homogenization of three-dimensional metamaterial objects and validation by a fast surface-integral equation solver

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 21714-21727

  Liu, Xing Xiang ^a   Massey, Jackson W ^a   Wu, Ming Feng ^a   Kim, Kristopher T ^b   Shore, Robert A ^c   Yilmaz, Ali E ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

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

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARCON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY-OF-SPHERES; ELECTRICALLY LARGE; HOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS; MAGNETODIELECTRIC SPHERES; PERIODIC ARRAYS; SPATIAL DISPERSION; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; WAVE INTERACTIONS;

METAMATERIALS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPHERES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84884538683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.021714     Document Type: Article

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