Silicon-based plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11791-11799

  Krasavin, Alexey V ^a   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CMOS FABRICATION; FIGURES OF MERITS; FULLY COMPATIBLE; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PHOTONIC SIGNALS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSS; SI-BASED; SIGNAL TRANSFER RATE; SILICON-BASED; STRONG CONFINEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION; WAVEGUIDE BEND;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 77952814422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011791     Document Type: Article

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