Rapid growth of evanescent wave by a silver superlens

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 5184-5186

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION (ATR); EVANESCENT WAVES;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROSTATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LENSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PERMITTIVITY; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0942277743     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1636250     Document Type: Article

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