Strong coupling between nanoscale metamaterials and phonons

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2104-2108

  Shelton, D J ^a,d   Brener, I ^b,c   Ginn, J C ^b,c,d   Sinclair, M B ^b   Peters, D W ^b   Coffey, K R ^a   Boreman, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d Plasmonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; near fields; normal mode splitting; phonon vibrational modes; split ring resonators

Indexed keywords

ANTICROSSINGS; BAND-TO-BAND TRANSITION; DIELECTRIC LAYER; NANO SCALE; NANO-METER-SCALE; NEAR FIELDS; NORMAL MODE SPLITTING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PHONON BANDS; PHONON EXCITATIONS; PHONON VIBRATIONAL MODES; PHONON VIBRATIONS; SEMI-CONDUCTOR WAFER; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SPLIT RING RESONATORS; STRONG COUPLING; THIN FILM MATERIAL;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHONONS; RESONANCE; RING GAGES; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 79955878919     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl200689z     Document Type: Article

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