Experimental demonstration of a unidirectional reflectionless parity-time metamaterial at optical frequencies

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 108-113

  Feng, Liang ^a   Xu, Ye Long ^b   Fegadolli, William S ^a,c,d   Lu, Ming Hui ^b   Oliveira, José E B ^c   Almeida, Vilson R ^c,d   Chen, Yan Feng ^b   Scherer, Axel ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILITARY APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR REFLECTION;

ASYMMETRIC REFLECTIONS; CHIP-SCALE; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HIGH CONTRAST RATIO; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PHASE TRANSITION POINT;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84872923806     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3495     Document Type: Article

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