Air gaps in metal stripe waveguides supporting long-range surface plasmon polaritons

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Berini, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Spectalis Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STRIP METAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AIR GAPS; LOWER-INDEX PLANARIZING LAYERS; METAL STRIPE WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34548091525     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2764222     Document Type: Article

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