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  • Electrical Engineering

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  • To introduce reconfigurable "plug-and-play" electromagnetic metamaterials.
  • To demonstrate that effective metamaterial properties can be achieved by tailoring interactions, not just building blocks.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing standard bayonet Neill-Concelman (BNC) connectors as trivial building blocks.
  • Tailoring local and nonlocal interactions via standard coaxial cables to engineer metamaterial properties.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated unprecedented dispersion relations in the lowest band.
  • Observed multiple regions of slow waves and backward waves.
  • Showcased metamaterials dominated by nonlocal interactions that are not limited by causality.

Conclusions:

  • Reconfigurable metamaterials can be designed by focusing on inter-component interactions.
  • This approach offers a new paradigm for creating electromagnetic metamaterials with tunable properties.
  • The nonlocal interaction-driven design bypasses causality limitations inherent in local resonance designs.