Optical metamaterials based on optical nanocircuits

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1669-1681

  Alu, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetics; metamaterials; nanocircuits; optics

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

ELECTROMAGNETICS; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; LUMPED CIRCUIT ELEMENTS; NANO-CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DISPLACEMENT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL METAMATERIALS; TRANSMISSION LINE METAMATERIALS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 80053124869     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2160834     Document Type: Article

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