Wave propagation control at the deep subwavelength scale in metamaterials

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-60

  Lemoult, Fabrice ^a   Kaina, Nadège ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a   Lerosey, Geoffroy ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTIFICIAL MEDIA; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; EFFECTIVE PROPERTY; LARGE DIMENSIONS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; SPATIAL SCALE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84871622930     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2480     Document Type: Article

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