The perfect lens would immaculately reproduce an image of an object, with no light losses in the transition. The strange optical properties of a gold nanostructure bring the prospect of such a component into sharper focus.
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Sambles, R. Gold loses its lustre. Nature 438, 295–296 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438295a
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