Compact planar far-field superlens based on anisotropic left-handed metamaterials

Nian-Hai Shen,1,* Stavroula Foteinopoulou,1,2 Maria Kafesaki,1,3 Thomas Koschny,1,2 Ekmel Ozbay,4 Eleftherios N. Economou,1 and Costas M. Soukoulis1,2,3,† 1Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL), Foundation of Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH), 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece 2Ames Laboratory, U.S. DOE, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA 3Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece 4Nanotechnology Research Center, Department of Physics, and Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey Received 10 July 2009; revised manuscript received 26 August 2009; published 24 September 2009