Direct photonic - Plasmonic coupling and routing in single nanowires

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 21045-21050

  Yan, Ruoxue ^a   Pausauskie, Peter ^a   Huang, Jiaxing ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag nanowires; Propagation length; SnO2 nanoribbons; Subwavelength; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANORIBBON; NANOWIRE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; LIGHT; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILVER; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 75849138499     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902064106     Document Type: Article

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