Large longitudinal electric fields (Ez) in silicon nanowire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2797-2804

  Driscoll, Jeffrey B ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Yasseri, Saam ^a   Hsieh, Iwei ^a   Dadap, Jerry I ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a  

^a 1300S W Mudd Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOWIRES;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ELECTRIC FIELD COMPONENTS; LONGITUDINAL FIELDS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; SILICON NANOWIRES; TRANSVERSE FIELD COMPONENT; WAVEGUIDE FIELD; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

WAVEGUIDES;

NANOTUBE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 60649121222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002797     Document Type: Article

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