Plasmonic materials in transparency and cloaking problems: Mechanism, robustness, and physical insights

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3318-3332

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; RADIATION EFFECTS; TRANSPARENCY;

CLOAKING PROBLEMS; METAMATERIALS; PLASMONIC MATERIALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33947365140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003318     Document Type: Article

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