Comment on paper "Extremely Low Frequency Plasmons in Metallic Mesostructures" [J.B. Pendrey, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4773 (1996)]

Andrey K. Sarychev, Vladimir M. Shalaev

A first-principle theory for the effective dielectric permittivity in metallic mesostructures is developed. This theory, in particular, takes into account the skin effect, which is…