Abstract

Recently, artificially constructed metamaterials have become of considerable interest, because these materials can exhibit electromagnetic characteristics unlike those of any conventional materials. Artificial magnetism and negative refractive index are two specific types of behavior that have been demonstrated over the past few years, illustrating the new physics and new applications possible when we expand our view as to what constitutes a material. In this review, we describe recent advances in metamaterials research and discuss the potential that these materials may hold for realizing new and seemingly exotic electromagnetic phenomena.

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MetamaterialMagnetismPhotonic metamaterialRefractive indexNegative refractionNegative index metamaterialsIndex (typography)PhysicsNanotechnologyEngineering physicsTheoretical physicsComputer scienceOpticsMaterials scienceCondensed matter physicsWorld Wide Web

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Year
2004
Type
article
Volume
305
Issue
5685
Pages
788-792
Citations
4341
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David R. Smith, J. B. Pendry, M C K Wiltshire (2004). Metamaterials and Negative Refractive Index. Science , 305 (5685) , 788-792. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1096796

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10.1126/science.1096796