Negative refraction in semiconductor metamaterials

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 946-950

  Hoffman, Anthony J ^a   Alekseyev, Leonid ^a   Howard, Scott S ^a   Franz, Kale J ^a   Wasserman, Dan ^a   Podolskiy, Viktor A ^b   Narimanov, Evgenii E ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^c   Gmachl, Claire ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PERMITTIVITY;

MACROSCOPIC ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NEGATIVE REFRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR METAMATERIALS; SUBWAVELENGTH;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 36749079969     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2033     Document Type: Review

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