12348-12353 Intra-connected three-dimensionally isotropic bulk negative index photonic metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12348-12353

  Güney, Durdu Ö ^a   Koschny, Thomas ^a,b   Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; FULLY-ISOTROPIC; LEFT-HANDED BEHAVIOR; NEGATIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PARADIGM SHIFTS; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77953587790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012348     Document Type: Article

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