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Physics of Negative Refraction and Negative Index Materials

Optical and Electronic Aspects and Diversified Approaches

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Clifford M. Krowne

    1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, USA

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  2. Yong Zhang

    1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, USA

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  • Perhaps the most comprehensive book on the new class of negative refraction materials, covering all aspects of negative refraction and negative index materials
  • Unique integrates physics, materials science and applications of these new materials
  • Reference work for both researchers and engineers, plus basic explanations for students
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 98)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Negative Refraction of Electromagnetic and Electronic Waves in Uniform Media

    • Yong Zhang, Angelo Mascarenhas
    Pages 1-18

  3. Anisotropic Field Distributions in Left-Handed Guided Wave Electronic Structures and Negative Refractive Bicrystal Heterostructures

    • Clifford M. Krowne
    Pages 19-73

  4. “Left-Handed” Magnetic Granular Composites

    • Siu-Tat Chui, L. B. Hu, Zifang Lin, Lei Zhou
    Pages 75-94

  5. Spatial Dispersion, Polaritons, and Negative Refraction

    • Vladimir M. Agranovich, Yuri N. Gartstein
    Pages 95-132

  6. Negative Refraction in Photonic Crystals

    • Wentao Lu, P. Vodo, Srinivas Sridhar
    Pages 133-147

  7. Negative Refraction and Subwavelength Focusing in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

    • Ekmel Ozbay, Gonca Ozkan
    Pages 149-165

  8. Negative Refraction and Imaging with Quasicrystals

    • Xiangdong Zhang, Zhifang Feng, Yiquan Wang, Zhi-Yuan Li, Bingying Cheng, Dao-Zhong Zhang
    Pages 167-182

  9. Generalizing the Concept of Negative Medium to Acoustic Waves

    • Jensen Li, K. H. Fung, Z. Y. Liu, Ping Sheng, Che Ting Chan
    Pages 183-215

  10. Experiments and Simulations of Microwave Negative Refraction in Split Ring and Wire Array Negative Index Materials, 2D Split-Ring Resonator and 2D Metallic Disk Photonic Crystals

    • Frederic Rachford, Douglas L. Smith, Peter F. Loschialpo
    Pages 217-250

  11. Super Low Loss Guided Wave Bands Using Split Ring Resonator-Rod Assemblies as Left-Handed Materials

    • Clifford M. Krowne
    Pages 251-259

  12. Development of Negative Index of Refraction Metamaterials with Split Ring Resonators and Wires for RF Lens Applications

    • Claudio G. Parazzoli, Robert B. Greegor, M. H. Tanielian
    Pages 261-329

  13. Nonlinear Effects in Left-Handed Metamaterials

    • Ilya V. Shadrivov, Yuri S. Kivshar
    Pages 331-371

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 373-378
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About this book

There are many potentially interesting phenomena that can be obtained with wave refraction in the “wrong” direction, what is commonly now referred to as negative refraction. All sorts of physically new operations and devices come to mind, such as new beam controlling components, re?ectionless interfaces, ?at lenses, higher quality lens or “super lenses,” reversal of lenses action, new imaging components, redistribution of energy density in guided wave components, to name only a few of the possibilities. Negative index materials are generally, but not always associated with negative refracting materials, and have the added property of having the projection of the power ?ow or Poynting vector opposite to that of the propagation vector. This attribute enables the localized wave behavior on a subwavelength scale, not only inside lensesandinthenear?eldoutsideofthem,butalsoinprincipleinthefar?eld of them, to have ?eld reconstruction and localized enhancement, something not readily found in ordinary matter, referred to as positive index materials. Often investigators have had to create, even when using positive index materials, interfaces based upon macroscopic or microscopic layers, or even heterostructure layers of materials, to obtain the ?eld behavior they are se- ing. For obtaining negative indices of refraction, microscopic inclusions in a host matrix material have been used anywhere from the photonic crystal regime all the way into the metamaterial regime.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, USA

    Clifford M. Krowne, Yong Zhang

About the editors

The editors are well known senior research scientists at two nationally recognized research laboratories in the US, and the contributing authors, from internationally located universities, national labs, and industry, are all major contributors to the curently important and active field of negative refractive and negative index materials.

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