Nanofabricated media with negative permeability at visible frequencies

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7066, 2005, Pages 335-338

  Grigorenko, A N ^a   Geim, A K ^a   Gleeson, H F ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Firsov, A A ^a,b   Khrushchev, I Y ^c   Petrovic, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND HIGH PURITY MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETISM; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MICROWAVES;

ENGINEERING MAGNETISM; MAGNETIC RESPONSE; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

GOLD;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXCITATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICS; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 27844474770     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04242     Document Type: Article

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