Regenerating evanescent waves from a silver superlens

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 682-687

  Fang, Nicholas ^a   Liu, Zhaowei ^a   Yen, Ta Jen ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BANDWIDTH; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICK FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LEFT-HANDED METAMATERIALS (LHM); METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE-INDEX MEDIUM (NRIM); SILVER SLAB;

LENSES;

EID: 0942277603     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000682     Document Type: Article

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