When size matters | Nature Physics


When size matters | Nature Physics

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That the unit cell of a metamaterial can't be considered vanishingly small like in ordinary crystals has long been deemed more burden than opportunity. The emergence of a characteristic


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AFFILIATIONS * Institute of Applied Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 76128, Germany Muamer Kadic, Tobias Frenzel & Martin Wegener


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