Near-field plates: Metamaterial surfaces/arrays for subwavelength focusing and probing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1806-1815

  Grbic, Anthony ^a   Merlin, Roberto ^a   Thomas, Erin M ^a,b   Imani, Mohammadreza F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction limit; evanescent wave; focusing; metamaterials; near field

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOCUSING;

A-SPOTS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; EVANESCENT WAVE; NEAR FIELDS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80053113945     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2106191     Document Type: Review

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