Cascaded logic gates in nanophotonic plasmon networks

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wei, Hong ^a   Wang, Zhuoxian ^a   Tian, Xiaorui ^a   Käll, Mikael ^b   Xu, Hongxing ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PHOTONS;

EID: 79960331116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1388     Document Type: Article

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