Nonlinear properties of left-handed metamaterials
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- 21 March 2003
Abstract
We analyze nonlinear properties of microstructured materials with negative refraction, the so-called left-handed metamaterials. We consider a two-dimensional periodic structure created by arrays of wires and split-ring resonators embedded into a nonlinear dielectric, and calculate the effective nonlinear electric permittivity and magnetic permeability. We demonstrate that the hysteresis-type dependence of the magnetic permeability on the field intensity allows changing the material from left- to right-handed and back. These effects can be treated as the second-order phase transitions in the transmission properties induced by the variation of an external field.Keywords
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- Version 1, 2003-03-21, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 91 (3), 037401.
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