Broadband subwavelength imaging using a tunable graphene-lens

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 10107-10114

  Li, Peining ^a   Taubner, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

broadband; frequency tunable; graphene; loss insensitivity; subwavelength imaging

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; EVANESCENT WAVE; FREQUENCY-TUNABLE; IMAGING DEVICE; LOSS-INSENSITIVITY; LOW SENSITIVITY; NEAR-FIELD; NONRESONANT; PLANAR SHEETS; PLASMONICS; RESEARCH FIELDS; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; SUPERLENSES; SURFACE PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TUNABILITIES; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLASMONS;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870428095     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303845a     Document Type: Article

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