Development of optical hyperlens for imaging below the diffraction limit

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15886-15891

  Lee, Hyesog ^a   Liu, Zhaowei ^a   Xiong, Yi ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTILAYERS; WAVELENGTH;

ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIAL; HYPERLENS;

LENSES;

EID: 36749037701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015886     Document Type: Article

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