Employment of metamaterial cloaks to enhance the resolution of near-field scanning optical microscopy systems based on aperture tips

Metamaterials

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 119-124

  Bilotti, Filiberto ^a   Pierini, Francesco ^a   Vegni, Lucio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cloaking; Metamaterials; NSOM tips; Scattering cancellation

Indexed keywords

CLOAKING; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MATERIAL LOSS; METALLIC COATING; NATURAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PLASMONIC; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REAL PART; WORKING FREQUENCY;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 80053132599     PISSN: 18731988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metmat.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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