The characteristics and applications of metamaterials

Ultrasound

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 68-73

  Wright, Derek W ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Invisibility cloaking; Metamaterials; Negative refraction; Periodic structures; Phononic crystals; Subwavelength imaging; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349829936     PISSN: 1742271X     EISSN: 17431344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313409X415639     Document Type: Article

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