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Science 5 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5808, pp. 47 - 49
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136481
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Negative Refractive Index at Optical Wavelengths

Costas M. Soukoulis, Stefan Linden, Martin Wegener,

Metamaterials are designed to have structures that provide optical properties not found in nature. If their capacity can be extended, new kinds of devices for imaging and control of light will be possible.

C. M. Soukoulis is at the Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA, and at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 71110 Heraklion, and the University of Crete, 71409 Heraklion, Crete, Greece. S. Linden and M. Wegener are at the Center for Functional Nanostructures, Universität Karlsruhe and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. E-mail: soukoulis{at}ameslab.gov

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