Bistable and self-tunable negative-index metamaterial at optical frequencies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Pai Yen ^a   Farhat, Mohamed ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; KERR NONLINEARITY; LIGHT INTENSITY; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE-INDEX; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PLASMONIC;

LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 79952429238     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.105503     Document Type: Article

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