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Subwavelength resolution with a negative-index metamaterial superlens

2007; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 90; Issue: 25 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.2750393

1520-8842

Koray Aydın, İrfan Bulu, Ekmel Özbay,

Antenna Design and Analysis

Negative-index metamaterials are candidates for imaging objects with sizes smaller than a half-wavelength. The authors report an impedance-matched, low loss negative-index metamaterial superlens that is capable of resolving subwavelength features of a point source with a 0.13λ resolution, which is the highest resolution achieved by a negative-index metamaterial. By separating two point sources with a distance of λ∕8, they were able to detect two distinct peaks on the image plane. They also showed that the metamaterial based structure has a flat lens behavior.