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Simulation, Fabrication and Characterization of THz Metamaterial Absorbers
Published on: December 27, 2012
An efficient way to reduce losses of left-handed metamaterials
Jiangfeng Zhou1, Thomas Koschny, Costas M Soukoulis
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. jfengz@iastate.edu
Abstract:
We propose a simple and effective way to reduce the losses in left-handed metamaterials by manipulating the values of the effective parameters R, L, and C. We investigate the role of losses of the short-wire pairs and the fishnet structures. Increasing the effective inductance to capacitance ratio, L/C, reduces the losses and the figure of merit can increase substantially, especially at THz frequencies and in the optical regime.
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