Slow electromagnetic waves in planar three-component waveguide structure with mu-negative metamaterial

This work is devoted to study of the dispersive properties of the slow electromagnetic waves that propagate along the planar waveguide structure that consists of semi-bounded plasma region, metamaterial slab and semibounded region of ordinary dielectric. It is studied the case when all media are homogeneous and isotropic. The dispersion properties, the phase and group velocities, as well as the electromagnetic field spatial structure of the eigen TE modes are studied in the frequency range where the metamaterial possess negative permeability. (author)