Superlensing effect without obvious negative refraction

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Luan, Pi Gang ^a   Chang, Kao Der ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Negative refraction; Photonic crystal; Subwavelength imaging

Indexed keywords

PHONON SCATTERING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; INTERIOR STRUCTURE; MULTIPLE SCATTERING METHOD; NEAR FIELD EFFECT; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING;

LIGHT REFRACTION;

EID: 75649121572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2768384     Document Type: Article

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