Free-space imaging beyond the diffraction limit using a veselago-pendry transmission-line metamaterial superlens

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1720-1727

  Iyer, Ashwin K ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffraction limit; Focusing; Left handed (LH); Metamaterial; Negative refractive index (NRI); Periodic structures; Superlenses; Superresolution; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMIT; LEFT-HANDED (LH); NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX (NRI); SUPERLENSES; SUPERRESOLUTION; TRANSMISSION LINE;

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; EXPLOSIVES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; LENSES; LIGHT REFRACTION; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TUMORS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 67649437305     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2019890     Document Type: Article

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