New frontiers in metamaterials research: Novel electronic materials and inhomogeneous metasurfaces
New frontiers in metamaterials research: Novel electronic materials and inhomogeneous metasurfaces
Kun Ding, Shi-Yi Xiao, Lei Zhou()
State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
In reviewing some recent work in metamaterials, we highlight two exciting new frontiers just emerging in this field–metamaterials made by new electronic materials (particularly graphene) and inhomogeneous metasurfaces to control light wave-fronts.
. New frontiers in metamaterials research: Novel electronic materials and inhomogeneous metasurfaces[J]. Frontiers of Physics, 2013, 8(4): 386-393.
Kun Ding, Shi-Yi Xiao, Lei Zhou. New frontiers in metamaterials research: Novel electronic materials and inhomogeneous metasurfaces. Front. Phys. , 2013, 8(4): 386-393.
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