Conjugated gammadion chiral metamaterial with uniaxial optical activity and negative refractive index
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R. Zhao,1,2 L. Zhang,1 J. Zhou,3 Th. Koschny,1,4 and C. M. Soukoulis1,4 1Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA 2Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China 3Centre for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics & Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 4Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Heraklion, 71110 Crete, Greece (Received 28 June 2010; revised manuscript received 30 August 2010; published 10 January 2011)
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