Doubly negative metamaterials in the near infrared and visible regimes based on thin film nanocomposites

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 11164-11177

  Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a   Urzhumov, Yaroslav ^b   Shvets, Gennady ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THIN FILMS;

DOUBLY NEGATIVE METAMATERIAL (DNM); METAMATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SUBWAVELENGTH UNIT CELLS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33751108281     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011164     Document Type: Article

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