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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 |
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Abstract 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.
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metamaterial
new electronic material
graphene
inhomogeneous metasurfaces
wavefront control
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Corresponding Author(s):
Zhou Lei,Email:phzhou@fudan.edu.cn
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Issue Date: 01 August 2013
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