Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7307, 2010, Pages 735-738

  Xiao, Shumin ^a   Drachev, Vladimir P ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Ni, Xingjie ^a   Chettiar, Uday K ^a,b   Yuan, Hsiao Kuan ^a,c   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIGHT INTENSITY; METAL; NEAR INFRARED; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MATERIALS; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION;

EID: 77955504663     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09278     Document Type: Article

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