A holey-structured metamaterial for acoustic deep-subwavelength imaging

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-55

  Zhu, J ^a   Christensen, J ^b   Jung, J ^b,c   Martin Moreno, L ^d   Yin, X ^a   Fok, L ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Garcia Vidal, F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; DIFFRACTION; EVANESCENT FIELDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAMATERIALS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; ULTRASONIC TESTING; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

CLASSICAL WAVES; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; OPTICAL SUPERLENSES; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); UNDERWATER SONARS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 78650573862     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1804     Document Type: Article

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