An optical cloak made of dielectrics

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 568-571

  Valentine, Jason ^a   Li, Jensen ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^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

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METAMATERIALS;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; OPTICAL CLOAKING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; QUASI-CONFORMAL MAPPINGS; REFLECTING SURFACE; TAILORED PROPERTIES; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

EID: 67649514872     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2461     Document Type: Article

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