An efficient way to reduce losses of left-handed metamaterials
Materials Science
2008-07-16 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
We propose a simple and effective way to reduce the losses in left-handed metamaterials by manipulating the values of the effective parameters R, L, and C. We investigate the role of losses of the short-wire pairs and the fishnet structures. Increasing the effective inductance to capacitance ratio, L/C, reduces the losses and the figure of merit can increase substantially, especially at THz frequencies and in the optical regime.
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@article{arxiv.0807.2302,
title = {An efficient way to reduce losses of left-handed metamaterials},
author = {Jiangfeng Zhou and Thomas Koschny and Costas M. Soukoulis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2302},
year = {2008}
}