Left Handed Materials Research for Air Force Applications
Abstract
The words "Left Handed Materials" in the Title were one early way of expressing what is now termed "Negative Index (of refraction) Metamaterials" or NIMs In our proposal for this grant we focused on four general Goals: (1) Lowering the losses for the wire and SRR (split ring resonators) based unit cell construction designed to produce a desired negative permittivity (c) and negative permeability (micron) set of values. (2) Extend the theoretical concepts for making new types of NIMs, and then designing the new unit cells by the appropriate numerical simulations of Maxwell's Equations. (3) Extend the range of NIM frequencies from THz to the Infrared and potentially the optical. (4) Find Applications of interest to the Air Force using improved negative permittivity and negative permeability unit cells. We summarize the examples of the progress made and discussed in the previous three Progress Reports in the Technical Final Performance Report attached herein.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 02, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA477158
Entities
People
- Sheldon Schultz
Organizations
- University of California Regents