Three-dimensional optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7211, 2008, Pages 376-379

  Valentine, Jason ^a   Zhang, Shuang ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Ulin Avila, Erick ^a   Genov, Dentcho A ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; PROBE; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENERGY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; REFRACTION INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 52149094974     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07247     Document Type: Article

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