Coupling of optical lumped nanocircuit elements and effects of substrates

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13865-13876

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Salandrino, Alessandro ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INFRARED RADIATION; NANOPARTICLES; SUBSTRATES;

COMPLEX OPTICAL NANOCIRCUITS; NANOCIRCUIT ELEMENTS; NANOCIRCUIT THEORY; OPTICAL VOLTAGES;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 35348984078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013865     Document Type: Article

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