Spoof plasmon analogue of metal-insulator-metal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 14860-14870

  Kats, Mikhail A ^a   Woolf, David ^a   Blanchard, Romain ^a   Yu, Nanfang ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; PLASMONS; PLATE METAL; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; WAVEGUIDES;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; LOCALIZED MODES; LOW GROUP VELOCITY; METAL INSULATOR METALS; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL WAVEGUIDES; PARALLEL PLATES; PHOTONIC MODES;

MIM DEVICES;

METAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79961040600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014860     Document Type: Article

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