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Ideas for Potential Applications of Metamaterials with Negative Permittivity and Permeability

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Advances in Electromagnetics of Complex Media and Metamaterials

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Metamaterials with negative real permittivity and permeability possess interesting electromagnetic properties. Owing to the presence of anomalous refraction at the boundary between such a medium and a conventional medium, and the fact that in these media the Poynting vector and the wave vector of a uniform plane wave are antiparallel, one can conceptually suggest a variety of interesting potential applications for these media. In this chapter, we briefly describe some of our ideas and speculations on potential applications involving these metamaterials. These ideas include suggestions for phase compensators/phase conjugators, the idea of “complex medium of media” with compensated phase, the idea for thin, compact, subwavelength cavities and waveguides, suggestions for anomalous mode couplers, radomes and antenna covers, to name a few. We provide physical remarks and intuitive comments on these ideas.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA

    Nader Engheta

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  1. Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France

    Saïd Zouhdi

  2. Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

    Ari Sihvola

  3. Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco

    Mohamed Arsalane

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Engheta, N. (2002). Ideas for Potential Applications of Metamaterials with Negative Permittivity and Permeability. In: Zouhdi, S., Sihvola, A., Arsalane, M. (eds) Advances in Electromagnetics of Complex Media and Metamaterials. NATO Science Series, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1067-2_2

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