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Electric Metamaterials

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This chapter deals with electric metamaterials – artificially structured materials with prescribed electric properties. Since such media were investigated long before the flourish of metamaterial research, we begin the chapter with a historical review of “artificial dielectrics” initiated by radio wave engineers in the mid-20th century. Next, we study two of the most important types of electric metamaterials: stratified metal-dielectric composite and periodic arrays of metallic wires. These metamaterials serve as starting points for many advanced material structures and devices, such as negative-index materials, meta-lenses and electromagnetic cloaks. We also briefly discuss the optical properties of random metal-dielectric composites, which can be regarded as disordered electric metamaterials.

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  2. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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Cai, W., Shalaev, V. (2010). Electric Metamaterials. In: Optical Metamaterials. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1151-3_4

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