Symmetry breaking and optical negative index of closed nanorings

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kanté, Boubacar ^a   Park, Yong Shik ^a   O'Brien, Kevin ^a   Shuldman, Daniel ^a   Lanzillotti Kimura, Norberto D ^a   Jing Wong, Zi ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANORING; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIFFRACTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGING METHOD; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON BEAM; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETISM; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84870815703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2161     Document Type: Article

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