Plasmonic interaction between overlapping nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 597-607

  Lei, Dang Yuan ^a   Aubry, Alexandre ^a   Luo, Yu ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Pendry, John B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Band gap filters; Broad band light harvesting; Nanofocusing; Overlapping nanowires; Plasmonics; Transformation optics

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; BROAD BANDS; NANO-FOCUSING; OVERLAPPING NANOWIRES; PLASMONICS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; ENERGY GAP; HARVESTING; LIGHT; PLASMONS; WAVE FILTERS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 79955430940     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102819p     Document Type: Article

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