Bilayer metamaterial: analysis of left-handed transmission and retrieval of effective medium parameters

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2007

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Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

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1464-4258

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

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9

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9

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S361 - S365

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English

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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 effective index of refraction retrieved from the S parameters is found to be negative within this transmission band. An independent negative refraction experiment supports the existence of the negative index of refraction for the metamaterial.

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