Enhanced transmission of transverse electric waves through periodic arrays of structured subwavelength apertures

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6040-6047

  Xiao, Sanshui ^a   Peng, Liang ^a   Mortensen, Niels Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; INCIDENT ANGLES; PERIODIC ARRAYS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RESONANT MODE; SIDE LENGTH; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING; STRUCTURED APERTURE; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; SURFACE CURRENT; THIN METALLIC FILMS; TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC WAVES;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77949625868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006040     Document Type: Article

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