Physics of Negative Refraction and Negative Index Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Negative Refraction of Electromagnetic and Electronic Waves in Uniform Media

   • Yong Zhang, Angelo Mascarenhas

   Pages 1-18

3. Anisotropic Field Distributions in Left-Handed Guided Wave Electronic Structures and Negative Refractive Bicrystal Heterostructures

   • Clifford M. Krowne

   Pages 19-73

4. “Left-Handed” Magnetic Granular Composites

   • Siu-Tat Chui, L. B. Hu, Zifang Lin, Lei Zhou

   Pages 75-94

5. Spatial Dispersion, Polaritons, and Negative Refraction

   • Vladimir M. Agranovich, Yuri N. Gartstein

   Pages 95-132

6. Negative Refraction in Photonic Crystals

   • Wentao Lu, P. Vodo, Srinivas Sridhar

   Pages 133-147

7. Negative Refraction and Subwavelength Focusing in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

   • Ekmel Ozbay, Gonca Ozkan

   Pages 149-165

8. Negative Refraction and Imaging with Quasicrystals

   • Xiangdong Zhang, Zhifang Feng, Yiquan Wang, Zhi-Yuan Li, Bingying Cheng, Dao-Zhong Zhang

   Pages 167-182

9. Generalizing the Concept of Negative Medium to Acoustic Waves

   • Jensen Li, K. H. Fung, Z. Y. Liu, Ping Sheng, Che Ting Chan

   Pages 183-215

10. Experiments and Simulations of Microwave Negative Refraction in Split Ring and Wire Array Negative Index Materials, 2D Split-Ring Resonator and 2D Metallic Disk Photonic Crystals

    • Frederic Rachford, Douglas L. Smith, Peter F. Loschialpo

    Pages 217-250

11. Super Low Loss Guided Wave Bands Using Split Ring Resonator-Rod Assemblies as Left-Handed Materials

    • Clifford M. Krowne

    Pages 251-259

12. Development of Negative Index of Refraction Metamaterials with Split Ring Resonators and Wires for RF Lens Applications

    • Claudio G. Parazzoli, Robert B. Greegor, M. H. Tanielian

    Pages 261-329

13. Nonlinear Effects in Left-Handed Metamaterials

    • Ilya V. Shadrivov, Yuri S. Kivshar

    Pages 331-371

14. Back Matter

    Pages 373-378

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There are many potentially interesting phenomena that can be obtained with wave refraction in the “wrong” direction, what is commonly now referred to as negative refraction. All sorts of physically new operations and devices come to mind, such as new beam controlling components, re?ectionless interfaces, ?at lenses, higher quality lens or “super lenses,” reversal of lenses action, new imaging components, redistribution of energy density in guided wave components, to name only a few of the possibilities. Negative index materials are generally, but not always associated with negative refracting materials, and have the added property of having the projection of the power ?ow or Poynting vector opposite to that of the propagation vector. This attribute enables the localized wave behavior on a subwavelength scale, not only inside lensesandinthenear?eldoutsideofthem,butalsoinprincipleinthefar?eld of them, to have ?eld reconstruction and localized enhancement, something not readily found in ordinary matter, referred to as positive index materials. Often investigators have had to create, even when using positive index materials, interfaces based upon macroscopic or microscopic layers, or even heterostructure layers of materials, to obtain the ?eld behavior they are se- ing. For obtaining negative indices of refraction, microscopic inclusions in a host matrix material have been used anywhere from the photonic crystal regime all the way into the metamaterial regime.

• Dispersion
• Electromagnetic wave-matter interaction
• Experiment
• Left-handed materials
• Metamaterial
• Negative index materials
• Negative phase velocity materials
• Negative refractive materials
• development
• distribution
• imaging
• index of refraction
• phys

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, USA

  Clifford M. Krowne, Yong Zhang

The editors are well known senior research scientists at two nationally recognized research laboratories in the US, and the contributing authors, from internationally located universities, national labs, and industry, are all major contributors to the curently important and active field of negative refractive and negative index materials.

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