Planar plasmonic terahertz waveguides based on periodically corrugated metal films

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Gagan ^a   Pandey, Shashank ^a   Cui, Albert ^a   Nahata, Ajay ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND HOLES; CAVITY RESONANCES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HOLE DEPTH; INPUT PARAMETER; METAL FILM; MULTILAYER CONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERIODIC CORRUGATION; PLASMONIC; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ WAVEGUIDES;

METALLIC FILMS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

CORRUGATED METAL;

EID: 79953769016     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/3/033024     Document Type: Article

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