Ultrafast active plasmonics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-58

  MacDonald, Kevin F ^a   Sámson, Zsolt L ^a   Stockman, Mark I ^b   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PLASMONICS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION CARRIERS; INTEGRATED NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; METAL-DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE; NANOSECOND RESPONSE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DATA HANDLING; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PARTICLE OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 58049132210     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.249     Document Type: Article

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