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Nature materials LETTERS Published online : 18 APRIL 2010| DOI:10.1038/NMAT2747 A single-layer wide-angle negative-index metamaterial at visible frequencies 在可见光频率的一种单层广角负折射率超材料 Metamaterials are materials with artificial electromagnetic properties defined by their sub-wavelength structure rather than their chemical composition. 基于亚波长结构而非化学结构，超材料也叫人工电磁材料。 Negative-index materials(NIMs) are a special class of metamaterials characterized by an effective negative index that give rise to such unusual wave behavior as backwards phase propagation and negative refraction. 负折射率材料（NIMs）是一类具有有效负折射率的特殊超材料，能够产生逆向传播和负折射的不同寻常的波行为。 These extraordinary properties lead to many interesting functions such as sub-diffraction imaging and invisibility cloaking. 这些非凡的性能使得有有趣的功能，如子衍射成像和隐蔽伪装 So far ,NIMs have been realized through layering of resonant structures,such as spilt-ring resonators ,and have been demonstrated at microwave to infrared frequencies over a narrow range of angles-of-incidence and polarization. 到目前，负折射率材料（NIMs）已经通过谐振结构层实现，例如开环谐振器，而且在较窄范围的红外频率内的入射角和偏振也可以证明。 However ,resonant-element NIM designs suffer from the limitations of not being scalable to operate at visible frequencies because of intrinsic fabrication limitations,require multiple functional layers to achieve strong scattering and have refractive indices that are highly dependent on angle of incidence and polarization. 然而，由于内在的制造受限，谐振元件负折射率超材料设计受到不能扩展至可见光频率的限制，因此NIM设计需要有多个功能层，大都基于入射角和偏振来获得强大的散射和折光率。 Here we report a metamaterial composed of a single layer of coupled plasmonic coaxial waveguides that exhibits an effective refractive index of-2 in the blue spectral region with a figure-of -merit larger than 8 . 这里我们报告一种超材料，该材料包含一层耦合电浆同轴波导管，展现了在灵敏值大于8的蓝色光谱区有效的折光率，其折光率为2. The resulting NIM refractive index is insensitive to both polarization and angle-of-incidence over a ±50°angular range,yielding a wide-angle NIM at visible frequencies. 结果得到的超材料折射率在±50°角度范围对偏振和入射角均不