Tuning the resonant wavelength of a nanometric bow-tie aperture by altering the relative permittivity of the dielectric substrate

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gai, Hongfeng ^a   Wang, Ji A ^b   Tian, Qian ^b  

^a Institute of Optoelectronics Engineering   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERMITTIVITY; SUBSTRATES; WAVELENGTH; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BOW TIE APERTURE; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; RESONANT WAVELENGTH; BOWTIE APERTURE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; NANOMETRICS; POWER THROUGHPUT; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 37249021805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2822393     Document Type: Article

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