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Nature Materials 6, 922 - 923 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat2065

Semiconductors: A new class of metamaterials

Willie J. Padilla1

  1. Willie J. Padilla is in the Department of Physics, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA.
    e-mail: Willie.Padilla@bc.edu


Conventional metamaterials that show negative refraction suffer from high intrinsic losses and are difficult to fabricate. A novel anisotropic semiconducting metamaterial offers a solution.

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