Engineering the propagation properties of planar plasmonic terahertz Waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-153

  Zhu, Wenqi ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^b   Cui, Albert ^c   Kumar, Gagan ^c   Nahata, Ajay ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificially engineered materials; guided waves; subwavelength structures; surface plasmons; terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERED MATERIALS; GUIDED WAVES; SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 79951555339     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2051799     Document Type: Article

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