Optical activities in complementary double layers of six-armed metallic gammadion structures

Journal of Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gao, Wensheng ^a   Tam, Wing Yim ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Optical activity

Indexed keywords

DICHROISM; METAMATERIALS; POLARIZATION;

ASYMMETRIC NATURES; COMPREHENSIVE MEASUREMENT; DOUBLE LAYERED; DOUBLE LAYERED STRUCTURE; DOUBLE LAYERS; LIFT-OFF PROCESS; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; POLARIZATION SHIFT;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 78651472659     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/1/015101     Document Type: Article

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