Graphene-dielectric composite metamaterials: Evolution from elliptic to hyperbolic wavevector dispersion and the transverse epsilon-near-zero condition

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Othman, Mohamed A K ^a   Guclu, Caner ^a   Capolino, Filippo ^a  

^a Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

metamaterials; multilayers; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; PLASMONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; EFFECTIVE-MEDIUM APPROXIMATION; ELLIPTIC DISPERSION; GRAPHENE-BASED COMPOSITES; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; PROPAGATION OF WAVES; WAVE-VECTOR DISPERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 84892650301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.7.073089     Document Type: Article

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