Sub-wavelength diffraction-free imaging with low-loss metal-dielectric multilayers

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 905-909

  Kotyński, Rafał ^a   Stefaniuk, Tomasz ^a   Pastuszczak, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LOW LOSS; METAL-DIELECTRIC MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL BEAMS; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; DIFFRACTION; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

EID: 79959361177     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-011-6286-3     Document Type: Article

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