Pendry: negative refraction and a perfect-lens proposal

What changed

Analyzed amplification of evanescent components through an idealized negative-index slab.

Scientific scope

The record is the sole-author 2000 Physical Review Letters paper. It is a theoretical proposal, not a claim of a lossless realized device; contemporaneous comments, later superlens experiments and practical-resolution limits remain separate.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the sole-author 2000 Physical Review Letters paper. It is a theoretical proposal, not a claim of a lossless realized device; contemporaneous comments, later superlens experiments and practical-resolution limits remain separate.

Contributors

• J. B. Pendry · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• APS record for Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens
• APS full text for the perfect-lens paper

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