Restoring the Physical Meaning of Metamaterial Constitutive Parameters
arXiv:1012.1353 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.081102
Abstract
Metamaterial homogenization is often based on implicit assumptions inspired to natural material models. Retrieved effective permittivity and permeability, however, are often non-physical, especially near the array resonances, of most interest for metamaterial applications. We explain here the nature of typical homogenization artifacts, relating them to an inherent form of magneto-electric coupling associated with the finite phase velocity along metamaterial arrays. Our findings allow restoring the proper definition and physical meaning of local constitutive parameters for metamaterials.
15 pages, 5 figures
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