Conformal transformations to achieve unidirectional behavior of light

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Xu ^a,b   Yao, Kan ^a   Wu, Qiannan ^a   Xu, Yadong ^a   Chen, Huanyang ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION; LIGHT TRAVEL; LINE CURRENT SOURCE; METALLIC STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ON-CHIP APPLICATIONS; ONE-WAY PROPERTY; PARAMETER REDUCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 84861931560     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/5/053023     Document Type: Article

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