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The Dynamical Study of the Metamaterial Systems

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We investigate the dynamical characteristics of metamaterial systems, such as the temporal coherence gain of superlens, the causality limitation on the ideal cloaking systems, the relaxation process and essential elements in the dispersive cloaking systems, and extending the working frequency range of cloaking systems. The point of our study is the physical dispersive properties of meta-materials, which are well known to be intrinsically strongly dispersive. With physical dispersion, new physical pictures could be obtained for the waves propagating inside metamaterial, such as the “group retarded time” for waves inside superlens and cloak, the causality limitation on real metamaterial systems, and the essential elements for design optimization. So we believe the dynamical study of meta-materials will be an important direction for further research. All theoretical derivations and conclusions are demonstrated by powerful finite-difference time-domain simulations.

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  1. National Key-Lab of the Functional Material, Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, 200050, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Xunya Jiang, Zheng Liu, Zixian Liang, Peijun Yao & Xulin Lin

  2. Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

    Huanyang Chen

  3. Department of Physics, Suzhou University, 215006, Suzhou, China

    Huanyang Chen

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Jiang, X., Liu, Z., Liang, Z., Yao, P., Lin, X., Chen, H. (2010). The Dynamical Study of the Metamaterial Systems. In: Cui, T., Smith, D., Liu, R. (eds) Metamaterials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0573-4_9

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