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Science 6 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5685, pp. 788 - 792
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096796

Review

Metamaterials and Negative Refractive Index

D. R. Smith,1 J. B. Pendry,2 M. C. K. Wiltshire3

Recently, artificially constructed metamaterials have become of considerable interest, because these materials can exhibit electromagnetic characteristics unlike those of any conventional materials. Artificial magnetism and negative refractive index are two specific types of behavior that have been demonstrated over the past few years, illustrating the new physics and new applications possible when we expand our view as to what constitutes a material. In this review, we describe recent advances in metamaterials research and discuss the potential that these materials may hold for realizing new and seemingly exotic electromagnetic phenomena.

1 Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319, USA. E-mail: drs{at}physics.ucsd.edu
2 Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. E-mail: j.pendry{at}imperial.ac.uk
3 Imaging Sciences Department, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK. E-mail: michael.wiltshire{at}imperial.ac.uk

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