Patent ID: 8860631

Claim:
A metamaterial comprising: a plurality of first resonators that each generate a negative dielectric constant with respect to a predetermined wavelength, each of the first resonators defining an internal space; a plurality of second resonators that each generate a negative magnetic permeability with respect to the predetermined wavelength and wherein the second resonators are multilayer capacitive resonators; and a supporting member that fixes each of the second resonators inside the plurality of first resonators, and fixes the plurality of first resonators so that the plurality of first resonators are disposed in a spatially continuous manner, wherein a length of the plurality of second resonators along a direction of electric current propagation in a signal line is less than λ/20 with respect to a wavelength λ of an electromagnetic wave at a resonant frequency, and wherein the multilayer capacitive resonators have a capacitance and an inductance, and the capacitance and the inductance comprise a closed-loop.