Flat-top surface plasmon-polariton modes guided by double-electrode structures

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17151-17162

  Yoon, Jaewoong ^a   Song, Seok Ho ^a   Park, Suntak ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON MODES; SYMMETRICALLY-COUPLED LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITONS (SC-LRSPP);

PLASMONS;

EID: 37249016617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017151     Document Type: Article

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