Limitations and potentials of metamaterial lenses

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Xing Xiang ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

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

Author keywords

homogenization; metamaterials; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EVANESCENT WAVE AMPLIFICATION; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING PROPERTIES; NEGATIVE INDEX OF REFRACTION; NEGATIVE-INDEX LENS; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80052413426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3578138     Document Type: Article

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