Past achievements and future challenges in the development of three-dimensional photonic metamaterials

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 523-530

  Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,b   Wegener, Martin ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 80052262786     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.154     Document Type: Review

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