Experimental demonstration of negative magnetic permeability in the far-infrared frequency regime

Using transmission and reflection measurements in a five layer micrometer-scale split-ring resonator (SRR) system, fabricated by a photolithography procedure, the authors demonstrate the occurrence of a negative magnetic permeability regime in that system at similar to 6 THz. The transmission and reflection were measured using oblique incidence, resulting to a magnetic field component perpendicular to the SRR plane, which excites the resonant circular currents constituting the magnetic resonance. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.