Coupling of gap plasmons in multi-wire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19401-19413

  Manjavacas, A ^a   De Garcia Abajo F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

ATTENUATION LENGTHS; CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; COPLANAR CONFIGURATIONS; EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICES; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES;

PLASMONS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70749124223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019401     Document Type: Article

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