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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Metamaterials For Aerospace Applications

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 6 April 2010, reviews electromagnetic and optical metamaterials for aerospace use. It was produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. The report covers super-lenses and hyper-lenses for imaging objects smaller than the diffraction limit, slowing light to shrink components, energy-harvesting absorbers, and one-way chiral devices. It concludes that metamaterials matter for aerospace because they allow smaller, lighter components.

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I 0.260 1.654 0.003
2 0.254 1.677 0.023
3 0.245 1.718 0.052
4 0.230 1.771 0.085
5 0.208 1.825 0.120
6 0.190 1.886 0.154
7 0.173 l.951 0.188
8 0.148 2.027 0.220
9 0.129 2.110 0.250
10 0.116 2.199 0.279
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= 0.2 mm. The substrate is 381 μm-thick Duro1d 5870 (E = 2 33, td = 0.0012 at 10 GHz, where td is the loss
tangent). The cu film, from which the SRRs are patterned, is 17 μm thick. The parameters rand s are given in the
table together with the associated value of μ-. (Reference 6)
Electric properties of metamaterials can be similarly controlled. An example of a planar
electrically-active metamaterial is shown in Figure 2.
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l Figure 2. Example of Another Metamaterial Component: Electric
Ring Resonator (ERR). This component provides tunable resonant
electric response to the incident electromagnetic field, and can be
utilized for engineering the frequency-dependent dielectric
permittivity c(w) . Possible application: THz and microwave absorbers.
(Reference 7)
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