Realization of optical superlens imaging below the diffraction limit

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lee, Hyesog ^a   Xiong, Yi ^a   Fang, Nicholas ^a   Srituravanich, Werayut ^a   Durant, Stephane ^a   Ambati, Muralidhar ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMISSION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY;

DIFFRACTION LIMIT; OPTICAL SUPERLENSES; RESOLVING FEATURES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 29144444767     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/255     Document Type: Article

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