A silicon-based electrical source of surface plasmon polaritons

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-25

  Walters, R J ^a   Van Loon, R V A ^a   Brunets, I ^b   Schmitz, J ^b   Polman, A ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAL WORKING; METALS; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROOPTICS; MOS DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRICAL SOURCES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODES; ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY; MICRO-OPTICAL COMPONENTS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; SILICON MICROELECTRONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 72449138231     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2595     Document Type: Article

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