AAWSAP DIRD, Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, April 2010

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Figure 14. Schematic of Pulse Compression in Magnetized Plasma ...................... 16
Figure 15. Trapped Rainbow: A Waveguide With Negative Index Core Can Stop
Light.................................................................................................... 17
Figure 16. "Plasmonic Molecule" Exhibiting EIT ................................................... 18
Figure 17. True Multi-Layer Metamaterial With a Unit Cell Shown in Figure16:
Radiative Antenna (Single Metal Strip) Coupled to a Dark Antenna
(Two Perpendicular Metal Bars) .......................................................... 19
Figure 18. "Perfect" Narrow-Band Microwave Absorber ....................................... 20
Figure 19. Wide-Angle Plasmonic Absorber Based on Negative Index
Metamaterial ....................................................................................... 21
Figure 20. Specific Design of a Wide-Angle Plasmonic Absorber Based on Negative
Index Metamaterial Operating at A= 1550 nm ..................................... 22
Figure 21. Experimental Reflectivity vs. Wavelength and Theoretical Plot of
Reflectivity Contours ........................................................................... 23
Figure 22. Preliminary Attempts to Design a Better Absorber Using Complementary
MetaMaterials (U-shaped C-MM) ......................................................... 25
Figure 23. Engineering the Complex Reflectivity Coefficient Using the Concept of a
MetaMirror.......................................................................................... 26
Figure 24. Example of a Generic Chiral Metamaterial ........................................... 28
Figure 25. Example of Time-Irreversibility of Light Propagation Inside the Twisted
Fiber Core............................................................................................ 29
Figure 26. THz Properties of an Electric Split Ring Resonator .............................. 31
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