Negative-index metamaterials: Going optical

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1106-1115

  Klar, Thomas A ^b,c   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a,b   Drachev, Vladimir P ^b   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Left handed materials; Metamaterials; Nanoparticle plasmon resonance; Negative refractive index

Indexed keywords

LEFT-HANDED MATERIALS; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE PLASMON RESONANCE; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33845788036     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.880597     Document Type: Article

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