Core-shell nanowire optical antennas fed by slab waveguides

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 11 I, 2007, Pages 3018-3026

  Li, Jingjing ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna feeds; Antenna theory; Plasmons; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOWIRES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS;

ANTENNA THEORY; MIE SCATTERING THEORY; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PLASMONIC NANOWIRE; SLAB WAVEGUIDES;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 36849084036     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.908534     Document Type: Article

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