Three-dimensional optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index

2008/08/11 by Jason Valentine, Shuang Zhang, Thomas Zentgraf +4 · 2,302 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Figure of merit #Materials science #Metamaterial #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Negative refraction #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photonic metamaterial #Physics #Plasmon #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Refraction #Refractive index #Split-ring resonator #Superlens #Transformation optics

paper · doi:10.1038/nature07247

published in Nature 455(7211), 376-379 (Nature Portfolio)

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