Sub-wavelength focusing meta-lens

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7577-7582

  Roy, Tapashree ^a   Rogers, Edward T F ^a   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

GOLD FILM; NANO-STRUCTURING; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; TRANSMITTED LIGHT;

METAMATERIALS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; LENSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875741175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007577     Document Type: Article

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