Anomalous homogeneous behaviour of metallic photonic crystals

We study the diffractive properties of metallic photonic crystals in the homogenization regime. It is shown that for a H || polarized field, the metallic crystal has an anomalous behaviour: it behaves like an artificial dielectric material with a current on its boundary. Numerical computations are given showing the practical use of the theoretical results.

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