A curious instability phenomenon for a rounded corner in presence of a negative material

Asymptotic Analysis

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 43-74

  Chesnel, Lucas ^a   Claeys, Xavier ^b   Nazarov, Sergey A ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

corner; metamaterial; negative materials; plasmonic; sign changing coefficients

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS;

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; CORNER; NEGATIVE MATERIALS; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PLASMONIC; SIGN-CHANGING; TRANSMISSION PROBLEM;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901757973     PISSN: 09217134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ASY-141214     Document Type: Article

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