Left-handed chiral metamaterials

• Authors: Cumali Sabah
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this work, the concept of left-handed chiral metamaterials is analyzed by emphasizing their optical ability on the rotation of the plane of polarization of a wave. The possibilities of a negative phase velocity, negative and positive propagation constants, and basic electromagnetic properties of this novel medium are also presented. After the characterization of left-handed chiral metamaterial, we provide a reflection and transmission study for two planar boundaries of nonchiral-left-handed chiral metamaterial for normal angles of incidence. Some numerical results are also provided to validate the formulation found in the analysis and to show the role of the chirality in the propagation constants, phase velocities, reflection and transmission.

Keywords

EN

left-handed metamaterial; chiral medium; negative phase velocity; reflection, and transmission

Discipline

• 01.55.+b: General physics
• 04.30.Nk: Wave propagation and interactions
• 78.20.Ci: Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity)
• 78.90.+t: Other topics in optical properties, condensed matter spectroscopy and other interactions of particles and radiation with condensed matter (restricted to new topics in section 78)
• 77.22.Ch: Permittivity (dielectric function)(for low-permittivity dielectric films, see 77.55.Bh; for high-permittivity gate dielectric films, 77.55.D-)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 872-878

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2008

online

27 - 9 - 2008

Contributors

author

Cumali Sabah

• Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, University of Gaziantep, 27310, Gaziantep, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-006-0107-x