Hybrid plasmonic waveguide based on tapered dielectric nanoribbon: Excitation and focusing

Plasmonics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-212

  Fang, Zheyu ^a   Qi, Hong ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Zhu, Xing ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Metal optics; Nanostructure; Near field microscopy; Surface plasmon polariton; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952582002     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9135-x     Document Type: Article

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