Electromagnetic tunneling through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive bilayer

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Castaldi, Giuseppe
Gallina, Ilaria
Galdi, Vincenzo
Alù, Andrea
Engheta, Nadar
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We show that resonant tunneling of electromagnetic fields can occur through a three-layer structure composed of a single-negative (i.e., either negative permittivity or negative permeability) slab paired with a bilayer made of double-positive (i.e., positive permittivity and permeability) media. In particular, one of the two double-positive media can be chosen arbitrarily (even vacuum), while the other may exhibit extreme (either near-zero or very high) permittivity and permeability values. Our results on this counterintuitive tunneling phenomenon also demonstrate the possibility of synthesizing double-positive slabs that effectively exhibit single-negative-like wave-impedance properties within a moderately wide frequency range.

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2011-02-24
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Suggested Citation: Reprinted from Physical Review B, Vol. 83, 081105(R). Copyright 2011 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physical Review B and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.081105
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