Chirality and anisotropy of planar metamaterials

Structured Surfaces as Optical Metamaterials

Volumn 9780521119610, Issue , 2011, Pages 94-157

  Plum, Eric ^a   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADAR SYSTEMS;

ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSIONS; BROADBAND COMMUNICATION; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MOLECULAR RESONANCES; POLARIZATION ROTATION; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY; WIRE GRID POLARIZERS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84901208299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511921261.005     Document Type: Chapter

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