Observation of negative refraction and negative phase velocity in left-handed metamaterials
Author(s) -
Koray Aydın,
Kaan Güven,
Costas M. Soukoulis,
Ekmel Özbay
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.1888051
Subject(s) - negative refraction , metamaterial , refractive index , negative index metamaterials , left handed , refraction , optics , phase velocity , phase (matter) , total external reflection , photonic metamaterial , range (aeronautics) , group velocity , materials science , transmission (telecommunications) , physics , telecommunications , quantum mechanics , computer science , composite material
Cataloged from PDF version of article.We report the transmission characteristics of a two-dimensional (2D) composite metamaterial (CMM) structure in free space. At the frequencies where left-handed transmission takes place, we experimentally confirmed that the CMM structure has effective negative refractive index. Phase shift between consecutive numbers of layers of CMM is measured and phase velocity is shown to be negative at the relevant frequency range. Refractive index values obtained from the refraction experiments and the phase measurements are in good agreement. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics
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