Highly confined photon transport in subwavelength metallic slot waveguides

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1928-1932

  Dionne, J A ^a   Lezec, H J ^a,b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; METALLIC SLOT WAVEGUIDES; PHOTON TRANSPORT;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS;

EID: 33749675351     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0610477     Document Type: Article

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