Experimental demonstration of metamaterial "multiverse" in a ferrofluid

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14918-14925

  Smolyaninov, Igor I ^a   Yost, Bradley ^b   Bates, Evan ^b   Smolyaninova, Vera N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METAMATERIALS; NANOMAGNETICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

COBALT-BASED; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; MAGNETIC NANO-PARTICLES; MEASUREMENTS OF; MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRANSIENT FORMATION;

NANOPARTICLES;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; PROCEDURES;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84879355299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014918     Document Type: Article

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