Liquid crystal clad near-infrared metamaterials with tunable negative-zero-positive refractive indices

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3342-3347

  Werner, Douglas H ^a   Kwon, Do Hoon ^a   Khoo, Iam Choon ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^b   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFRARED RADIATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TUNING;

INFRARED METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIALS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33947543341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003342     Document Type: Article

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