Three-dimensional invisibility cloak at optical wavelengths

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5976, 2010, Pages 337-339

  Ergin, Tolga ^a   Stenger, Nicolas ^a   Brenner, Patrice ^a   Pendry, John B ^b   Wegener, Martin ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OPTICAL METHOD; POLYMER; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 77951162773     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1186351     Document Type: Article

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23. We thank K. Busch, G. von Freymann, S. Linden, and M. Thiel for discussions and help regarding sample fabrication and photonic band-structure calculations. We acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the State of Baden-Württemberg through the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures within subprojects A1.4 and A1.5. We also thank the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission (FET open grant number 213390) for financial support of the project PHOME. The project METAMAT is supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. The Ph.D. education of T.E. is embedded in the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP); N.S. is supported as a mentor in the KSOP.