An ultra-thin chiral metamaterial absorber with high selectivity for LCP and RCP waves

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Li, Minhua ^a   Guo, Linyan ^b   Dong, Jianfeng ^a   Yang, Helin ^b  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

chiral medium; metamaterials absorber; multipole theory; polarization transformer

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS;

CHIRAL MEDIUM; CHIRAL METAMATERIAL; CIRCULAR POLARIZED; HIGH SELECTIVITY; INCIDENT WAVES; METALLIC WIRE; METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS; MULTIPOLE THEORIES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84899029415     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/18/185102     Document Type: Article

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