Paired cut-wire arrays for enhanced transmission of transverse-electric fields through subwavelength slits in a thin metallic screen

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 641-644

  Gallina, Ilaria ^a   Castaldi, Giuseppe ^a   Galdi, Vincenzo ^a   Di Gennaro, Emiliano ^b   Andreone, Antonello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cut wire arrays; enhanced optical transmission; slit arrays

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DIELECTRIC LAYER; ELECTRIC-FIELD DIRECTIONS; ENHANCED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; METALLIC SCREEN; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SLIT ARRAY; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC FIELD; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; WIRE ARRAYS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; WIRE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77954879686     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2054061     Document Type: Article

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