Impedance Matching Induce High Transmission and Flat Response Band-Pass Plasmonic Waveguides

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 337-343

  Xu, Yi ^a,b   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Lan, Sheng ^b   Guo, Qi ^b   Wu, Li Jun ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Impedance matching; Surface plasmons; Wavelength filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956146304     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9209-4     Document Type: Article

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