Subwavelength electromagnetic dynamics in stacked complementary plasmonic crystal slabs

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15389-15398

  Iwanaga, Masanobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS;

COMPOSITE STATE; EFFICIENT PATH; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DYNAMICS; HIGH CONTRAST; LOCAL PLASMON; PLASMONIC CRYSTALS; POYNTING FLUX; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 77954889770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015389     Document Type: Article

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