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Exotic optics: Metamaterial world

Engineered structures with bizarre optical properties are set to migrate out of the laboratory and into the marketplace.

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Billings, L. Exotic optics: Metamaterial world. Nature 500, 138–140 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500138a

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