Recent advances on optical metasurfaces

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Zhao, Yang ^a   Liu, Xing Xiang ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Metasurfaces; Nano optics

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

INCLUSION SHAPES; METASURFACES; NANO OPTICS; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; PERIODIC ARRAYS; RADIATION CONTROLS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL MODELING;

NANOPHOTONICS;

EID: 84913572929     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/16/12/123001     Document Type: Review

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