Atomically thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5855-5863

  Chen, Pai Yen ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

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

Author keywords

cloaking; graphene; infrared; metamaterials; scattering

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CLOAKING; CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; FAR-INFRARED; SWITCHING DEVICES; TERAHERTZ; THIN SURFACES; TUNABILITIES;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS; MONOLAYERS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 79961099556     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201622e     Document Type: Conference Paper

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