Integration of photonic and silver nanowire plasmonic waveguides

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 660-665

  Pyayt, Anna L ^a   Wiley, Benjamin ^a   Xia, Younan ^b   Chen, Antao ^b   Dalton, Larry ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOWIRES; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; POLYMERS; SILVER;

DATA TRANSMISSION RATES; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; LEVEL OF INTEGRATIONS; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POLYMER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE;

WAVEGUIDES;

NANOWIRE; POLYMER; SILVER;

ARTICLE; NANOANALYSIS; NANOENGINEERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 57349104096     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.281     Document Type: Article

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