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By a rigorous full-wave approach, a systemic study is made on the magnetic resonance of slotted circular cylinder resonators (SCCRs) made of a perfect conductor for the lossless case. This is a two-dimensional analog of the split-ring resonator and may serve as an alternative type of essential constituent of electromagnetic metamaterials. It is found that the resonance frequency can be modulated by changing the geometrical parameters and the dielectrics filling in the cavity and the slot. An approximate empirical expression is presented for magnetic resonance frequency of SCCRs from the viewpoint of an L-C circuit system. Finally, it is demonstrated that the SCCR structure can be miniaturized to less than 1/150 resonant wavelength in size with the dielectrics available currently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present experimental demonstrations that the material consists of self-biased Sr-ferrite rods is the lower loss left-handed material (LHM). Clear negative refractions are observed in refraction experiments with the wedge shaped samples made from this material, and negative effective refractive index n = -1 is measured. The attenuation of the sample is about 0.55 dB/cm obtained from transmission measurements much lower than other known LHMs. Our configuration avoids the bias magnetic fields required for LHMs made of soft magnetic materials and extremely high permittivity needed for making LHMs with purely dielectrics, which greatly improves its impedance mismatch with the air. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have demonstrated experimentally a one-way magnetic surface plasmon (MSP) electromagnetic (EM) waveguide in the microwave range based on the magnetic photonic crystals (MPCs). The waveguide exhibits asymmetric transmission of EM waves in the frequency range near the MSP resonance for an MPC, such that a significant one-way propagation can be observed in the channel between the two MPC slabs, each in an external static magnetic field (ESMF) of opposite directions. The one-way waveguide is not only immune to interstitial metal defects but also robust against the disorder of rod position. Furthermore, its working frequency can be flexibly tuned by an ESMF, which makes it more favorable for the design of EM devices. The physics is related to the broken time-reversal symmetry of the MSP band states and the excitation of a giant circulation of the energy flow, similar to the case in the quantized Hall effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We experimentally studied magnetically controllable photonic band gaps (PBGs) in two-dimensional magnetic photonic crystals consisting of ferrite rods. Besides the conventional PBG that relates to Bragg scattering, two other types of PBG, resulting from magnetic surface plasmon (MSP) resonance and spin-wave resonance, respectively, are observed. The PBG due to MSP resonance is particularly interesting because of its analogy to surface plasmon in metal; furthermore, it is shown to be completely tunable by an external static magnetic field from both an experimental and a theoretical point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The computer simulation method has been used to study the structural formation and transition of electro-magneto-rheological (EMR) fluids under compatible electric and magnetic fields. When the fields are applied simultaneously and perpendicularly to each other, the particles rapidly arrange into two-dimensional close-packed layer structures parallel to both fields. The layers then combine together to form thicker sheet-like structures, which finally relax into three-dimensional close-packed structures with the help of the thermal fluctuations. On the other hand, if the electric field is applied firstly to induce the body-centered tetragonal (BCT) columns in the system, and then the magnetic field is applied in the perpendicular direction, the BCT to face-centered cubic (FCC) structure transition is observed in very short time. Following that, the structure keeps on evolving due to the demagnetization effect and finally form the three-dimensional close-packed structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We demonstrate a sharply asymmetric reflection in a geometrically symmetric magnetic metamaterial (MM) system, which originates from the coupling of electromagnetic (EM) wave to magnetic surface plasmon resonance states and the broken time reversal symmetry in MM. Based on this effect, we have designed unidirectional EM waveguide, wave bender, and beam splitter. Our simulations indicate that the designs possess the merits of robustness against strong defect and disorder, controllability with an external magnetic field, in addition to the finite working bandwidth and the high transmission efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]