Physical bounds on the all-spectrum transmission through periodic arrays

Summary, in English

We show that the blockage in transmission of a screen with a periodic microstructure integrated over all wavelengths is bounded by the static polarizability per unit area of the screen. Physical bounds on the co-polarized transmission coefficient over a wavelength interval are presented using only information from the zero-frequency properties of the microstructure. The theoretical results are compared to and verified by measurements on a screen composed of a large number of split ring resonators printed on a dielectric substrate.

• Author: Mats Gustafsson; Christian Sohl; Christer Larsson; Daniel Sjöberg
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology
• Publishing year: 2009
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-34002
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 87
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/87/34002
• Document type: Journal article (letter)
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Status: Published
• Research group: Electromagnetic theory
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114