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Realization of optical superlens imaging below the diffraction limit

Focus on Negative Refraction

Hyesog Lee, Yi Xiong, Nicholas Fang, Werayut Srituravanich, Stephane Durant, Muralidhar Ambati, Cheng Sun and Xiang Zhang

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