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A new era of exotic electromagnetism

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Nature has its own limits and naturally-occurring materials exhibit restricted electromagnetic properties bound within those limits. However, modern day researchers have developed artificially structured material composites, called ‘metamaterials’, that possess significant potential to provide electromagnetic properties that are quite unusual and are not found in nature. This article is aimed at giving an introductory review of this class of ‘designer materials’ and their superior properties that are not present in their constituent components.

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  1. Department of Physics, Pondicherry University, Pudhucherry, 605 014, India

    K. Porsezian

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K Porsezian works at the Department of Physics, Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, India. He is investigating solitons and modulation instability in nonlinear optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, metamaterials, photo-refractive materials, photonic crystal fibers and also integrability aspects of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Ancemma is working towards her doctoral degree in Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. Her primary research interests are based on studying the nonlinear pulse propagation through nonlinear periodic structures and negative index materials.

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Porsezian, K., Joseph, A. A new era of exotic electromagnetism. Reson 17, 163–176 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-012-0016-9

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