Anomalous reflection from hybrid metamaterial slab

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12119-12126

  Wei, Zeyong ^a,b   Li, Hongqiang ^a,b   Wu, Chao ^a,b   Cao, Yang ^a,b   Ren, Jinzhi ^a,b   Hang, Zhihong ^c   Chen, Hong ^a,b   Zhang, Daozhong ^d   Chan, C T ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongji University   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; METAMATERIALS;

ANOMALOUS REFLECTION; DIFFRACTION ORDERS; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; PLANE WAVE; RESONANT STATE; ULTRA-THIN;

REFLECTION;

EID: 77953582327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012119     Document Type: Article

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