Experimental verification of the rainbow trapping effect in adiabatic plasmonic gratings

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5169-5173

  Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a,b   Gao, Yongkang ^a   Wagner, Kyle ^c   Vezenov, Dmitri ^c   Ding, Yujie J ^a   Bartoli, Filbert J ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Slow light; Surface dispersion engineering; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ADIABATICITY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRATING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 79955095709     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014963108     Document Type: Article

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