This paper presents a fast hybrid volume-surface integral equation approach for the computation of electromagnetic scattering from composed negative index media (NIM) such as split-ring-resonators (SRR) with wires. The volume electric field integral equation (EFIE) is applied to the dielectric region of this NIM, and the surface electric field integral equation is applied on the conducting surf...

Generalized analysis is presented extending recent work of the charging of a perfectly conducting sphere from a single charge carrier to two charge carriers of opposite polarity, with different values of volume charge density and mobility and including an ohmic lossy dielectric region surrounding a perfectly conducting sphere. Specific special cases treated are: (1) unipolar positive or negativ...

Metal-based negative refractive-index materials have been extensively studied in the microwave region. However, negative-index metamaterials have not been realized at near-IR or visible frequencies due to difficulties of fabrication and to the generally poor optical properties of metals at these wavelengths. In this Letter, we report the first fabrication and experimental verification of a tran...

We report an experimental and numerical analysis of a planar metamaterial designed for normal-to-plane propagation, and operating at microwave frequencies. The metamaterial consists of cutwire and wire patterns, which are arranged periodically on both sides of a dielectric layer, in the form of a bilayer. The left-handed transmission band of the metamaterial is demonstrated experimentally. The ...

We study the TE polarized electromagnetic surface wave propagating along the interface between materials with positive and negative magnetic permeability. Contrary to the TM polarized surface wave, the TE surface wave exhibits almost no radiation losses when scattered at semi-infinite dielectric interfaces.

The dynamic response of the three-dimensionally ordered blue phases BPI and BPII to a step-function electric field was studied in a liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy. A change of diffraction intensities, indicating the existence of two qualitatively different transformations of the structure, has been observed in a pulse electric field.

Group delay for a reflected light pulse from a weakly absorbing dielectric slab is theoretically investigated, and large negative group delay is found for weak absorption near a resonance of the slab [Re(kd)=mpi]. The group delay for both the reflected and transmitted pulses will be saturated with an increase of the absorption.

Plasmonic cloaking is a scattering-cancellation technique based on the local negative polarizability of metamaterials. Here we report its first experimental realization and measurement at microwave frequencies. An array of metallic fins embedded in a high-permittivity fluid has been used to create a metamaterial plasmonic shell capable of cloaking a dielectric cylinder, yielding over 75% reduct...

Negative-index metamaterials (NIMs) at near infrared wavelengths (~2 mum) are fabricated with circular, elliptical and rectangular holes penetrating through metal/dielectric/metal films. All three NIM structures exhibit similar figures of merit; however, the transmission is higher for the NIM with rectangular holes as a result of an improved impedance match with the substrate-superstrate (air-g...

We demonstrate experimentally the manipulation of Airy surface plasmon beams in a linear potential. For this purpose, we fabricate dielectric-loaded plasmonic structures with a graded refractive index by negative-tone gray-scale electron beam lithography. Using such carefully engineered potentials, we show that the bending of an Airy surface plasmon beam can be fully reversed by the potential.