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<journal-id>2448-5691</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Mundo nano. Revista interdisciplinaria en nanociencias y nanotecnología]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Mundo nano]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-5691</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-56912008000100021</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La refracción negativa y los metamateriales: los nuevos materiales para dispositivos ópticos]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Palomino Ovando]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Martha A.]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cocoletzi]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gregorio H.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Instituto de Física &#8220;Luis Rivera Terrazas&#8221; ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2008</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2008</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>1</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>21</fpage>
<lpage>32</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-56912008000100021&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-56912008000100021&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-56912008000100021&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[En este trabajo describimos el efecto novel de la refracción negativa. Esta refracción anómala puede suceder en materiales artificiales: un tipo llamado metameteriales de índice de refracción negativa, en la cual la velocidad de fase es negativa y otro tipo de material de índice de refracción positiva donde la velocidad de grupo es positiva. Describimos modelos para la construcción de los materiales y damos ejemplos ilustrativos de la refracción negativa. También mencionamos algunas posibles aplicaciones de estos nuevos materiales como la construcción de lentes con superficies planas y materiales invisibles. En la fabricación de metamateriales que funcionen con luz visible, sus componentes deben tener tamaños en la nanoescala.]]></p></abstract>
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