Huygens, Mackintosh, Dalí, and Medusa: Polarization engineering (and more?)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7782, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; CARTESIANS; HUYGENS; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; NANO-ENGINEERING; OPERATING FREQUENCY BANDS; POLARIZATION STATE; SCULPTURED THIN FILMS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; METAMATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 78649916423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.863574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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