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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

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Maxwell's twenty original equations (nowadays elegantly reduced into four), their boundary conditions at interfaces, and the bulk electronic response functions (dielectric permittivity - and magnetic permeability μ) are at the root of our ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields and light (here without external interface currents or charges).

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Marin Soljači Research Group

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