Surface plasmon modes of finite, planar, metal-insulator-metal plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14902-14909

  Chen, Jing ^a   Smolyakov, Gennady A ^a   Brueck, Steven R J ^a   Malloy, Kevin J ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; METALS; MIM DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM STEERING DEVICES; CONFINEMENT FACTOR; DISPERSION RELATIONS; FREE SPACE COUPLING; METAL INSULATOR METALS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON MODES;

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 51849106982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014902     Document Type: Article

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