Subwavelength resolution with a negative-index metamaterial superlens
Date
2007
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Source Title
Applied Physics Letters
Print ISSN
0003-6951
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1077-3118
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AIP Publishing LLC
Volume
90
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25
Pages
254102-3 - 254102-1
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English
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Negative-index metamaterials are candidates for imaging objects with sizes smaller than a half-wavelength. The authors report an impedance-matched, low loss negative-index metamaterial superlens that is capable of resolving subwavelength features of a point source with a 0.13λ. resolution, which is the highest resolution achieved by a negative-index metamaterial. By separating two point sources with a distance of λ/8, they were able to detect two distinct peaks on the image plane. They also showed that the metamaterial based structure has a flat lens behavior.