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Left-Handed Materials

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Wave Scattering in Complex Media: From Theory to Applications

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Rapidly increasing interest in the left-handed materials (LHM) started after Pendry et al. predicted that certain man-made composite structure could possess, in a given frequency interval, a negative effective magnetic permeability µ eff [1]. Combination of such a structure with negative effective permittivity medium — for instance the regular array of thin metallic wires [2–7] — enabled the construction of meta-materials with both effective permittivity and permittivity negative. This was confirmed by experiments [8, 9].

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  1. Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA

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  2. Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 28, Bratislava, Slovakia

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  3. Research Center of Crete, 71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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Markoš, P., Soukoulis, C. (2003). Left-Handed Materials. In: van Tiggelen, B.A., Skipetrov, S.E. (eds) Wave Scattering in Complex Media: From Theory to Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 107. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0227-1_17

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