Excitation of plasmonic gap waveguides by nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 5925-5932

  Wen, Jing ^a   Romanov, Sergei ^a   Peschel, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; EFFICIENCY; NANOANTENNAS; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANTENNA LENGTH; CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; GAP WAVEGUIDES; GAP WIDTHS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; WAVEGUIDE PROPERTIES;

ANTENNAS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 65149095098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005925     Document Type: Article

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