Active terahertz spoof surface plasmon polariton switch comprising the perfect conductor metamaterial

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2792-2799

  Song, Kyungjun ^a   Mazumder, Pinaki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Active circuit; Bandwidth; Nematic liquid crystal (N LC); Spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP); Terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CIRCUIT; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; EXTINCTION RATIOS; LOW-VOLTAGE; METALLIC STRUCTURES; MICROMETER-SCALE; NOVEL METHODS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PERIODIC ARRAYS; SPOOF SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON (SSPP); SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ (THZ); THZ SIGNAL;

ACTIVE NETWORKS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; METAMATERIALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; SURFACES; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70350714240     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2030838     Document Type: Article

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