Subwavelength colour imaging with a metallic nanolens

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 438-442

  Kawata, Satoshi ^a,b   Ono, Atsushi ^b   Verma, Prabhat ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; COLOUR IMAGING; INCIDENT LIGHT; NANO-STRUCTURED; SILVER NANORODS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; METAMATERIALS; NANORODS; VIRUSES;

COLOR;

EID: 46349109579     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.103     Document Type: Article

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