Macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Xianzhong ^a   Luo, Yu ^b   Zhang, Jingjing ^c   Jiang, Kyle ^a   Pendry, John B ^b   Zhang, Shuang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL PROCESSES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79551611872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1176     Document Type: Article

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