Development of bulk optical negative index fishnet metamaterials: Achieving a low-loss and broadband response through coupling

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1682-1690

  Valentine, Jason ^a,b   Zhang, Shuang ^a,c   Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; nanoscale materials; negative index; optics

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICS; RADIATION EFFECTS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NEGATIVE AND ZERO INDEX; NEGATIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; OPTICAL METAMATERIALS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80053129858     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2094593     Document Type: Review

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