Extraordinary refractive properties of photonic crystals of metallic nanorods

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2620-2627

  Tserkezis, Christos ^a   Stefanou, Nikolaos ^a   Papanikolaou, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; LIGHT REFRACTION; NANORODS; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTION; TENSORS;

BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; EIGEN MODES; FINITE LENGTH; FINITE SLAB; FLAT BAND; FREQUENCY REGIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; INCIDENT WAVE FIELD; LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; METALLIC NANORODS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; PERMITTIVITY TENSORS; REFRACTIVE PROPERTIES; SELF-COLLIMATION; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 78649927719     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.002620     Document Type: Article

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