Broadband spoof plasmons and subwavelength electromagnetic energy confinement on ultrathin metafilms

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18184-18195

  Navarro Cía, Miguel ^a,b   Beruete, Miguel ^a   Agrafiotis, Spyros ^b   Falcone, Francisco ^a   Sorolla, Mario ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FREQUENCY BANDS; METALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPLEMENTARY SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; LARGE DIMENSIONS; METAL THICKNESS; METALLIC LAYERS; NARROW-BAND RESPONSE; SPOOF SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TEXTURED SURFACE;

PLASMONS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70349680906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018184     Document Type: Article

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