'Trapped rainbow' storage of light in metamaterials

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7168, 2007, Pages 397-401

  Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Boardman, Allan D ^b   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RAINBOW; SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW; REFRACTION INDEX; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCIENCE; STORAGE;

EID: 36248983254     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06285     Document Type: Article

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