Arm-edge conditions in plasmonic folded dipole nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12325-12335

  Iizuka, Hideo ^a,c   Engheta, Nader ^b   Fujikawa, Hisayoshi ^c   Sato, Kazuo ^c  

^a Toyota Motor North America Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Rd Management Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY;

AT RESONANCE; COMMON MODE; DIFFERENTIAL MODE; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; EQUIVALENT RADIUS; FOLDED DIPOLES; MODE DECOMPOSITION; NANOANTENNAS; OPTICAL DOMAINS; PARALLEL NANOWIRES; PLASMONIC; RADIO FREQUENCIES; WAVE NUMBERS;

NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONICS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOWIRES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79959429291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012325     Document Type: Article

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