Silicon nanostructure cloak operating at optical frequencies

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 461-463

  Gabrielli, Lucas H ^a   Cardenas, Jaime ^a   Poitras, Carl B ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DENSITY VARIATIONS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EXTERNAL OBSERVER; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; REFLECTING SURFACE; SILICON NANO STRUCTURES; SILICON STRUCTURES; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 68749084502     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.117     Document Type: Article

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