Guiding electromagnetic energy below the diffraction limit with dielectric particle arrays

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Du, Junjie ^a,b   Liu, Shiyang ^a,b   Lin, Zhifang ^a   Zi, Jian ^a   Chui, S T ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; SINGLE CHAINS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE-PLASMON;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 66349083499     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.051801     Document Type: Article

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