Extreme-angle broadband metamaterial lens

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-132

  Kundtz, Nathan ^a   Smith, David R ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; GRADIENT INDEXES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; METAMATERIAL LENS; RAY TRAJECTORIES; REFRACTIVE LENS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; WAVE ABERRATIONS;

LENSES;

EID: 75749131523     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2610     Document Type: Article

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