Wireless at the nanoscale: Optical interconnects using matched nanoantennas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LOSS; CHIP-SCALE; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; MISMATCH FACTOR; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; NANOANTENNAS; NANOCIRCUITS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; OPTICAL WIRELESS LINK; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; RADIATION LOSS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; WAVEGUIDES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 77953091276     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.213902     Document Type: Article

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