Vol. 44, Issue 4, pp. 637-648 (2014)

Abstract

In this paper, we study propagation of electromagnetic wave in negative ternary refractive indices of two-dimensional photonic crystals. We consider two structures with two concentric cylindrical rod and shell in which one of them has negative refractive indices, in positive dielectric background. It is shown that by increasing the diameter of the rod in both structures, we can obtain more and wider band gaps in comparison with the structures in which there is no negative refractive index materials. This increase is more considerable in the first structure, in which the rod has a negative refractive index, in comparison with the second one, where the rod has a positive refractive index.