Excitation and optimization modeling of surface plasmon polaritons in a concentric circular metallic grating Film

Plasmonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-74

  Li, X F ^a   Yu, S F ^a   Kumar, Ashwani ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Circular metal grating; Diffracted waves; Rigorous coupled wave model; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949540284     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-009-9117-z     Document Type: Article

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