P L Mladyonov | PubMed Health

PubMed2006

Asymmetric propagation of electromagnetic waves through a planar chiral structure.

We report that normal incidence transmission of circularly polarized waves through the lossy anisotropic planar chiral structure is asymmetric in the opposite direction. The new effect is fundamentally distinct from conventional gyrotropy of bulk chiral media and the Faraday effect, where the eigenstates are a pair of counterrotating elliptical states, while the eigenstates of the lossy anisotropic planar chiral structure are two corotating elliptical polarizations.

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PubMed2005

Planar electromagnetic metamaterial with a fish scale structure.

We report on a continuous electromagnetic metal planar metamaterial, which resembles a "fish scale" structure. Apart from the one isolated wavelength, it is highly transparent to electromagnetic radiation throughout a broad spectral range and becomes completely "invisible" at some frequency inflicting no transmission losses and phase delay. When the structure is superimposed on a metallic mirror it becomes a good broadband reflector everywhere apart from one wavelength where the reflectivity is small. At this wavelength the reflected wave shows no phase change with respect to the incident wave, thus resembling a reflection from a hypothetical zero refractive index material, or "magnetic wall." We also discovered that the structure acts as a local field concentrator and a resonant "amplifier" of losses in the underlying dielectric.

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