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Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity

D. R. Smith*, Willie J. Padilla, D. C. Vier, S. C. Nemat-Nasser, and S. Schultz

  • Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0319

  • *To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Electronic address: drs@sdss.ucsd.edu
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4184 – Published 1 May, 2000

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4184

Abstract

We demonstrate a composite medium, based on a periodic array of interspaced conducting nonmagnetic split ring resonators and continuous wires, that exhibits a frequency region in the microwave regime with simultaneously negative values of effective permeability μeff(ω) and permittivity ɛeff(ω). This structure forms a “left-handed” medium, for which it has been predicted that such phenomena as the Doppler effect, Cherenkov radiation, and even Snell's law are inverted. It is now possible through microwave experiments to test for these effects using this new metamaterial.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4184– Published 1 May, 2000
  • Received 2 December 1999

© 2000 American Physical Society

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