TiN/(Al,Sc)N metal/dielectric superlattices and multilayers as hyperbolic metamaterials in the visible spectral range

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Saha, Bivas ^a   Naik, Gururaj V ^a,c   Saber, Sammy ^a   Akatay, Cem ^a   Stach, Eric A ^b   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a   Sands, Timothy D ^a,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d Office of the Provost   (United States)

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EID: 84907988796     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.125420     Document Type: Article

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