Metamaterials is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 that was established in March 2007. It is published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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 in association with the Metamorphose Network of Excellence. The Coordinating Editor

Editor

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 is Mikhail Lapine. The journal is published quarterly, with occasional special issues. The journal covers research concerning metamaterial

Metamaterial

Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature. Metamaterials usually gain their properties from structure rather than composition, using small inhomogeneities to create effective macroscopic behavior....

s, such as artificial electromagnetic materials, which includes various types of composite periodic structures and frequency selective surfaces

Tunable metamaterials

A tunable metamaterial is a metamaterial with a variable response to an incident electromagnetic wave. This includes remotely controlling how an incident electromagnetic wave interacts with a metamaterial. This means the capablitity to determine whether the EM wave is transmitted, reflected, or...

 in the microwave

Microwave

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 and optical range

Photonic metamaterials

Photonic metamaterials, also known as Optical metamaterials, are a type of electromagnetic metamaterial, which are designed to interact with optical frequencies which are terahertz , infrared , and eventually, visible wavelengths. As a type of metamaterial, the periodic structures are made up of...

. Metamaterials is abstracted and/or indexed in the following databases: Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts Service

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 (CAS), Compendex

Compendex

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, Ei Compendex, Inspec

Inspec

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, and Scopus

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Top cited articles

The following is derived from the list of Top 10 Cited articles published in the last five years, extracted from Scopus on Sunday, June 6, 2010. The articles listed here on not necessarily in order of most cited.

• Sihvola, A.; Metamaterials in electromagnetics. Volume 1, Issue 1. pp 2–11 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.metmat.2007.02.003. Cited 46 times in Scopus.

• Boltasseva, A. and Shalaev, V.M.; Fabrication of optical negative-index metamaterials : Recent advances and outlook. Volume 2, Issue 1. pp 1–17. 2008. 10.1016/j.metmat.2008.03.004. Cited 28 times in Scopus.

• Shamonina, E. and Solymar, L.; Metamaterials : How the subject started. Volume 1, Issue 1. pp 12–18. 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.metmat.2007.02.001. Cited 20 times in Scopus.