An Overview of Salient Properties of Planar Guided-Wave Structures with Double-Negative (DNG) and Single-Negative (SNG) Layers

Negative-Refraction Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 339-380

  Alù, Andrea ^a,b   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contradictional couplers; Metamaterials; Planar guided wave structures; Power propagation; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890305289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0471744751.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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