Metamaterial frequency-selective superabsorber

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 644-646

  Ng, Jack ^a   Chen, Huanyang ^a   Chan, C T ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COREMAKING; METAMATERIALS;

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; CYLINDRICAL WAVE; DOUBLE NEGATIVE METAMATERIALS; DOUBLE NEGATIVES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; STRONG SCATTERINGS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 61549115231     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000644     Document Type: Article

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