Surface plasmon amplification in planar metal films

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1104-1108

  Genov, Dentcho A ^a   Ambati, Muralidhar ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple quantum wells (mqws); Planar metal films; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEDIA; ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS; NANO-SIZED; NANOCIRCUITS; PLANAR METAL; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; RENORMALIZATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES;

AMPLIFICATION; METALLIC FILMS; METALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 48849113696     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.905904     Document Type: Article

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