What are the left-handed media and what is interesting about them?

2004/04/30 by Konstantin Y. Bliokh, K. Yu. Bliokh, Yu. P. Bliokh +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #cond-mat.other #physics.class-ph #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1070/pu2004v047n04abeh001728

published as Physics-Uspekhi 47, 393 (2004) [trasl. from Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk 174, 439 (2004)] · 21 pages, 8 figures

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Abstract

2. Negative-index media 393 3. Wave propagation and refraction in left-handed media 394 4. Negative refraction and the causality principle 395

Citations

• THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF SUBSTANCES WITH SIMULTANEOUSLY NEGATIVE VALUES OF ε AND μ
• Subwavelength imaging by a left-handed material superlens

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