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A new class of metamaterials

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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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Figure 1: Metamaterials for negative refraction.

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

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Padilla, W. A new class of metamaterials. Nature Mater 6, 922–923 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2065

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