Negative refraction at visible frequencies

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5823, 2007, Pages 430-432

  Lezec, Henri J ^a,b   Dionne, Jennifer A ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; COLOR; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATERIALS; NANOFABRICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 34247474730     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139266     Document Type: Article

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