Experimental demonstration of an acoustic magnifying hyperlens

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 931-934

  Li, Jensen ^a   Fok, Lee ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,b   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

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 70450238356     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2561     Document Type: Article

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