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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 17, Issue 25, Pages 3717-3734Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/25/002
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We present a new set of artificial structures which can exhibit a negative refractive index band in excess of 6% in a broad frequency range from the deep infrared to the terahertz region. The structures are composites of two different kinds of non-overlapping spheres, one made from inherently non-magnetic polaritonic and the other from a Drude-like material. The polaritonic spheres are responsible for the existence of negative effective magnetic permeability whilst the Drude-like spheres are responsible for negative effective electric permittivity. The resulting negative refractive index structures are truly subwavelength structures with wavelength-to-structure ratio 14: 1, which is almost 50% higher than has been previously achieved. Our results are explained in the context of the extended Maxwell-Garnett theory and are reproduced by calculations based on the layer Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method, an ab initio multiple scattering theory. The role of absorption in the constituent materials is discussed. Effective medium computer F77 code is freely available at http://www.wave-scattering.com.
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