All-angle negative refraction and active flat lensing of ultraviolet light

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7450, 2013, Pages 470-474

  Xu, Ting ^a,b   Agrawal, Amit ^a,c   Abashin, Maxim ^a,b   Chau, Kenneth J ^d   Lezec, Henri J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; POLARIZATION; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; LIGHT ACTIVE FLAT LENSING; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MODULATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84878163220     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12158     Document Type: Article

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