Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; HEALTH;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ANTENNA IMPEDANCE; ANTENNA THEORY; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; INPUT IMPEDANCES; NANO ANTENNAS; NANO-ANTENNAS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RADIATIONS; PROPER DESIGN; RADIATION TUNING; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF);

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 47949125710     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.043901     Document Type: Article

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