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In the last years we have seen how a new sort of man-made materials with “exotic” optical properties (not found in nature) could be designed. In turn, this has opened amazing prospects for future technological applications. One relates to the design of structures with negative refractive index (NRI). In these NRI metamaterials, firstly proposed by Veselago [1], both the electric permittivity and the magnetic permeability are negative, leading to a refractive index that is negative. Metamaterials presenting NRI are expected to lead to important applications, as the perfect lens proposed by Pendry [2]. Furthermore, NRI metamaterials are thought to be the bricks for solving a long lasting question in optics: Is it possible to make an object “invisible”? Predicted independly by Ulf Leonhardt [3] and Pendry et al. [4], such an “invisibility cloak" was demonstrated in the microwave regime [5].
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Rodrigo, S.G. (2012). Theory of Negative-Refractive-Index Response of Double-Fishnet Structures. In: Optical Properties of Nanostructured Metallic Systems. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23085-1_3
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