Nonlocality-Induced Negative Refraction and Subwavelength Imaging by Parabolic Dispersions in Metal-Dielectric Multilayered Structures with Effective Zero Permittivity

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1095-1099

  Luo, Jie ^a   Chen, Huanyang ^a   Hou, Bo ^a   Xu, Ping ^a   Lai, Yun ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Index near zero metamaterials; Nonlocality; Parabolic dispersion; Subwavelength imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877624266     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9514-1     Document Type: Article

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