Digital metamaterials

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1115-1121

  Della Giovampaola, Cristian ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; LENSES; PERMITTIVITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BINARY SYSTEMS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CONVEX LENS; DIGITAL ELECTRONICS; DIGITAL INFORMATION; EFFECTIVE MATERIAL PARAMETERS; GRADED INDEX; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84961290950     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4082     Document Type: Article

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