Optimizing the superlens: Manipulating geometry to enhance the resolution

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Podolskiy, Viktor A ^a   Kuhta, Nicholas A ^a   Milton, Graeme W ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANAR IMAGING; PLANAR LENSES; SUPERLENS DESIGN; SUPERLENSES;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE WAVES;

LENSES;

EID: 28444461424     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2139620     Document Type: Article

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