Plasmonic nanorectennas for energy conversion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7394, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Osgood Iii, Richard ^a   Carlson, Joel B ^a   Kimball, Brian R ^a   Ziegler, David P ^a   Welch, James R ^a   Belton, Lauren E ^a   Fernandes, Gustavo E ^b   Liu, Zhijun ^b   Xu, Jimmy ^b  

^a DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; Nanoantennas; Nanodiodes; NIR visible spectrum; Optical properties; Periodic metallic nanostructures; Rectification

Indexed keywords

NANOANTENNAS; NANODIODES; NIR/VISIBLE SPECTRUM; PERIODIC METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURES; RECTIFICATION;

DISTILLATION; ELECTRIC WIRE; ENERGY CONVERSION; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; SIMULATORS; STRUCTURAL METALS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 70449331547     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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