Can light be stopped in realistic metamaterials?

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7216, 2008, Pages

  Reza, A ^a   Dignam, M M ^a   Hughes, S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATERIALS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 54549085649     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07359     Document Type: Note

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