Confinement and propagation characteristics of subwavelength plasmonic modes

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Oulton, R F ^a   Bartal, G ^a   Pile, D F P ^b   Zhang, X ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF CONFINEMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGIES; ENERGY CONFINEMENTS; HIGH INDICES; LOCAL FIELDS; LOW INDICES; LOW PROPAGATION LOSSES; MODE AREAS; MODE CONFINEMENTS; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; PLASMON WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SHARP FEATURES; STRONG CONFINEMENTS; SUB WAVELENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES;

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HYBRID MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 56749169406     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/10/105018     Document Type: Article

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