Quick search Find article
Quick search
Find article
Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Additional boundary conditions for nonconnected wire media

Mário G Silveirinha

Show affiliations


Continuing our recent work (2008 New J. Phys. 10 053011), we demonstrate that due to strong nonlocal effects additional boundary conditions (ABCs) are essential to characterize the reflection of electromagnetic waves by nonconnected wire arrays using homogenization methods. Based on simple physical considerations, we derive the ABCs for circumstances where the wire medium is adjacent either to a dielectric or to a conducting material, and demonstrate that in the lossless case such boundary conditions ensure the conservation of the power flow. It is shown that the number of ABCs is related to the number of metallic wires in a unit cell. We illustrate the application of the novel boundary conditions to several configurations with practical interest.


PACS

42.70.-a Optical materials

77.22.Ch Permittivity (dielectric function)

78.20.Ci Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity)

78.66.Bz Metals and metallic alloys

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2009)

Received 31 July 2009

Published 10 November 2009



  1. Additional boundary conditions for nonconnected wire media

    Mário G Silveirinha 2009 New J. Phys. 11 113016

  2. Structural and magnetic properties of an InGaAs/Fe3Si superlattice in cylindrical geometry

    Ch Deneke et al 2009 Nanotechnology 20 045703

  3. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering on synthetic nickel compounds and Ni-Fe hydrogenase protein

    Oliver Sanganas et al 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 190 012199

  4. Quantitative characterization of the formation of an interpenetrating phase composite in polystyrene from the percolation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

    Arun K Kota et al 2007 Nanotechnology 18 505705

  5. The accuracy of the spin sum rule in XMCD

    Cinthia Piamonteze et al 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 190 012015

  6. Improving the stability of cryogenic current comparator setups

    D Drung et al 2009 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 22 114004

  7. Mass, angular-momentum and charge inequalities for axisymmetric initial data

    Piotr T Chruściel and João Lopes Costa 2009 Class. Quantum Grav. 26 235013

  8. Axial interface optical phonon modes in a double-nanoshell system

    C Kanyinda-Malu et al 2008 Nanotechnology 19 285713

  9. Rotation of Coulomb Clusters in Magnetised Dusty Plasma

    F Cheung et al 2002 Phys. Scr. 2002 143

  10. Measurement of the activity concentration of the radionuclide Am-241 in a solution

    I A Kharitonov et al 2007 Metrologia 44 06001

View by subject




Export








Please login to access our web services, or create an account if you don't yet have one.

You must have cookies enabled in your web browser to be able to login.

Username
Password

Forgotten your password? Get a new one here.