Low-loss single-layer metamaterial with negative index of refraction at visible wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9320-9325

  Garcia Meca C ^a   Ortuno R ^a   Salvador, R ^a   Martinez A ^a   Marti J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH;

BLUE LIGHT; INFRARED FREQUENCIES; METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34547432746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009320     Document Type: Article

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