All-semiconductor active plasmonic system in mid-infrared wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14594-14603

  Li, Debin ^a   Ning, C Z ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; INDIUM ARSENIDE; INFRARED DEVICES; METAMATERIALS; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

IMPROVED CONFINEMENT; INAS; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MIDINFRARED; PLASMON WAVELENGTH; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; REDUCED LOSS; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; TUNABILITIES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 79960509671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014594     Document Type: Article

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