Optical coupling of deep-subwavelength semiconductor nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1463-1468

  Cao, Linyou ^a   Fan, Pengyu ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coupled mode theory; nanophotonics; Nanowire; optical antenna; photonic molecule

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; CHIP-SCALE; COUPLED MODE THEORY; COUPLED RESONATOR; DENSE ARRAYS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; NANO-OBJECTS; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; PHOTONIC COUPLING; PHOTONIC MOLECULE; PHOTONIC MOLECULES; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PLASMONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MICRORESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SINGLE ATOMS; STAND -ALONE; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

METAMATERIALS; MOLECULES; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ANTENNAS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 79954458569     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1040429     Document Type: Article

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