On the design of dielectric strip plasmonic structures for subwavelength waveguiding applications

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-196

  Nieuwoudt, Arthur ^a,b   Hosseini, Amir ^a,b   Massoud, Yehia ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design optimization; Dielectric strip structure; Plasmonic waveguide

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC STRIP STRUCTURE; LIGHT CONFINEMENT; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 41149130624     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2007.914993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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