Coupling and guided propagation along parallel chains of plasmonic nanoparticles

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Alü, Andrea ^a   Belov, Pavel A ^b,c   Engheta, Nader ^d  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; GUIDED PROPAGATION; GUIDED WAVE PROPAGATION; INFINITE NUMBERS; LINEAR ARRAYS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; PARALLEL ARRAYS; PARALLEL LINEAR ARRAY; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; TRANSMISSION-LINE; TWO-LINE;

ARRAY PROCESSING; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 79953799863     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/3/033026     Document Type: Article

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