Effective material parameter retrieval for thin sheets: Theory and application to graphene, thin silver films, and single-layer metamaterials
Paper in proceeding, 2012

An important tool in the field of metamaterials is the extraction of effective material parameters from simulated or measured scattering parameters of a sample. Here we discuss a retrieval method for thin-film structures that can be approximated by a two-dimensional scattering sheet. We determine the effective sheet conductivity from the scattering parameters and we point out the importance of the magnetic sheet current to avoid an overdetermined inversion problem. Subsequently, we present two applications of the sheet retrieval method. First, we determine the effective sheet conductivity of thin silver films and we compare the resulting conductivities with the sheet conductivity of graphene. Second, we apply the method to a cut-wire metamaterial with an electric dipole resonance. The method is valid for thin-film structures such as two-dimensional metamaterials and frequency-selective surfaces and can be easily generalized for anisotropic or chiral media.

graphene

retrieval

thin film

metamaterials

Effective medium

silver

Author

Philippe Tassin

Iowa State University

Thomas Koschny

Iowa State University

Costas M. Soukoulis

Iowa State University

Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL)

Physica B: Condensed Matter

0921-4526 (ISSN)

Vol. 407 20 4062-4065

Wave Propagation: From Electrons to Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials
Rethymnon, Greece,

Areas of Advance

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Subject Categories

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Condensed Matter Physics

DOI

10.1016/j.physb.2012.01.119

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