Hidden progress: Broadband plasmonic invisibility

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15757-15768

  Renger, Jan ^a   Kadic, Muamer ^b   Dupont, Guillaume ^b   Aćimović, Srdjan S ^a   Guenneau, Sébastien ^b   Quidant, Romain ^a,c   Enoch, Stefan ^b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SURFACES;

CURVED REFLECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING; FLAT MIRRORS; LIGHT INTENSITY; METAL SURFACES; NONRESONANT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 77954938212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015757     Document Type: Article

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