A self-assembled three-dimensional cloak in the visible

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mühlig, Stefan ^a   Cunningham, Alastair ^b   Dintinger, José ^c   Farhat, Mohamed ^a,d   Hasan, Shakeeb Bin ^a   Scharf, Toralf ^c   Bürgi, Thomas ^b   Lederer, Falk ^a   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER;

EID: 84881321937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02328     Document Type: Article

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