Optical negative-index metamaterials

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-48

  Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NEGATIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; RECENT PROGRESS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 34247268776     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2006.49     Document Type: Review

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