Optical antenna thermal emitters

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 658-661

  Schuller, Jon A ^a   Taubner, Thomas ^a,b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; CRITICAL COMPONENT; INFRARED FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL ANTENNAE; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; THERMAL EMISSIONS; THERMAL EMITTER; THERMAL EXCITATION;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SILICON CARBIDE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70350773938     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.188     Document Type: Article

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