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A solid ionic conductor with cation conductivity in the interelectrode region is studied. Due to their large size, the anions are considered fixed and form a homogeneous neutralizing electric background. The model can be used to describe…
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The dispersion law for the linear waves in the quasi-one-dimensional array of inductively coupled Josephson junctions (JJ) is derived. The array has a multiladder structure that consists of the finite number of rows ($N\ge 2$) in $Y$…
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The flat metasurfaces described by tensor surface conductivity, the transverse size of which is small compared to the wavelength, are considered. In this case, we introduce two-dimensional surface conductivity for them, as well as for…
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