Plasmonic Luneburg and Eaton lenses

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 151-155

  Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Liu, Yongmin ^a   Mikkelsen, Maiken H ^a   Valentine, Jason ^a,b   Zhang, Xiang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT; METALS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMONS;

DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; QUASI-FREE ELECTRON; SUB-DIFFRACTION LIMIT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE;

LENSES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79952446277     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.282     Document Type: Article

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