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Plasmonics gets transformed

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A high degree of control over plasmons can be achieved at the nanoscale by engineering the properties of adjacent dielectric layers.

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Figure 1: Transformation plasmonics is used to reduce scattering from a surface, effecting a kind of cloak.

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  1. Wenshan Cai and Mark L. Brongersma are in the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. brongersma@stanford.edu,

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Cai, W., Brongersma, M. Plasmonics gets transformed. Nature Nanotech 5, 485–486 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.140

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