American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 9(97), p. 091106
DOI: 10.1063/1.3486480
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We demonstrate that the presence of a supporting substrate can break the symmetry of a metamaterial structure, changing the symmetry of its effective parameters, and giving rise to bianisotropy. This indicates that magneto-electric coupling will occur in all metamaterials fabricated on a substrate, including those with symmetric designs.