Broadband transformation optics devices

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4793-4810

  Smolyaninova, Vera N ^a   Smolyaninova, Igor I ^b   Kildishev, Alexander V ^c   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^c  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterial; Microscopy; Transformation optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING; TAPERED WAVEGUIDE; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

METAMATERIALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

OPTICS;

EID: 84863755325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3104793     Document Type: Review

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