Arbitrarily thin metamaterial structure for perfect absorption and giant magnification

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11114-11119

  Jin, Yi ^a   Xiao, Sanshui ^b   Mortensen, N Asger ^b   He, Sailing ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AMPLIFICATION;

CRITICAL ANGLES; IMAGINARY PARTS; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; PLANE WAVE; REAL PART; SLAB STRUCTURES; SLAB THICKNESS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 79958206591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011114     Document Type: Article

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