Deep subwavelength waveguiding and focusing based on designer surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21498-21503

  Zhao, Wangshi ^a   Eldaiki, Omar M ^a   Yang, Ruoxi ^a   Lu, Zhaolin ^a  

^a Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FOCUSING; PLASMONS;

CROSS SECTION; METAL GRATING; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE MODES; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVE-GUIDING;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77958017454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021498     Document Type: Article

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