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Recently, there has been a rapid growth in the use of plasma for industrial applications where the use of plasma-based technologies offer distinct advantage over the conventional technologies (Kumar, 2011c). A number of spin-off plasma based technologies have spawned in the area of plasma-microwave interactions and plasma stealth technology. Plasma is the fourth state of matter and its material properties (electric permittivity and magnetic permeability) can be tuned by changing plasma parameters for electromagnetic radiations. As it is well known that electric permittivity () and a magnetic permeability (µ) are the fundamental characteristics which determine the propagation of electromagnetic waves in matter. Here, it may be quite interesting to study the electromagnetic wave propagation in the plasma. Plasma can be used as metamaterials for negative refrction of electromagnetic waves (Kumar, 2010a; Kumar 2011d).
