Large-area flexible 3D optical negative index metamaterial formed by nanotransfer printing

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 402-407

  Chanda, Debashis ^a   Shigeta, Kazuki ^a   Gupta, Sidhartha ^a   Cain, Tyler ^a   Carlson, Andrew ^a   Mihi, Agustin ^a   Baca, Alfred J ^b   Bogart, Gregory R ^c   Braun, Paul ^a   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; INFRARED DEVICES; ION BEAMS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON WAFERS; SILVER HALIDES;

ENGINEERED STRUCTURES; MULTILAYER ASSEMBLIES; NANOTRANSFER PRINTING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE INDEX OF REFRACTION; REALISTIC APPLICATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL LAYOUT;

SUBSTRATES;

MAGNESIUM; NANOMATERIAL; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; NANOANALYSIS; NANOENGINEERING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM;

EID: 79960096613     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.82     Document Type: Article

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