A Super Lens System for Demagnification Imaging Beyond the Diffraction Limit

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1543-1550

  Dong, Jianjie ^a   Liu, Juan ^a   Zhao, Xingxing ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Kang, Guoguo ^a   Xie, Jinghui ^a   Wang, Yongtian ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Subwavelength optical imaging; Superlens; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887610392     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9570-6     Document Type: Article

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