On-chip zero-index metamaterials

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 738-742

  Li, Yang ^a   Kita, Shota ^a   Munõz, Philip ^a   Reshef, Orad ^a   Vulis, Daryl I ^a   Yin, Mei ^a,b   Loncar, Marko ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; POLYMER FILMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ARBITRARY SHAPE; INDEX OF REFRACTION; ITS APPLICATIONS; LOW ASPECT RATIO; PHOTONIC CHIPS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLANAR PROCESS; SILICON PILLAR;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84946532288     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.198     Document Type: Article

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