Metamaterials for enhanced polarization conversion in plasmonic excitation

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5100-5106

  Feng, Liang ^a   Mizrahi, Amit ^a   Zamek, Steve ^a   Liu, Zhaowei ^a   Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

designer (spoof) plasmons; hybrid Bloch modes; metamaterial; polarization conversion; pure TE to plasmon coupling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; BLOCH MODES; DESIGNER (SPOOF) PLASMONS; ENHANCED POLARIZATION; EXCITATION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; PURE TE-TO-PLASMON COUPLING; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; SURFACE PLASMONS; TM POLARIZATION; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC;

METAMATERIALS; POLARIZATION;

PLASMONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79959782706     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201181p     Document Type: Article

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