Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 573-584

  Hess, O ^a   Pendry, J B ^a   Maier, S A ^a   Oulton, R F ^a   Hamm, J M ^a   Tsakmakidis, K L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS; LIGHT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS;

ACTIVE IMAGING; BIO PHOTONICS; INVISIBILITY CLOAKING; NANOPLASMONICS; OPTICAL METAMATERIALS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; STOPPED LIGHT; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84862702101     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3356     Document Type: Review

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