Optimal design of composite nanowires for extended reach of surface plasmon-polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 16058-16074

  Handapangoda, Dayan ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Jagadish, Chennupati ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLEXING; NANOPHOTONICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ZINC OXIDE;

CYLINDRICAL NANOWIRES; DIELECTRIC CLADDING; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DIELECTRIC REGIONS; EXTENDED REACHES; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH-DENSITY; IN-VACUUM; LOW LEVEL; MATERIAL THICKNESS; METAL LAYER; METALLIC NANOWIRES; METALLIC REGIONS; MODE ENERGIES; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; WAVE-GUIDING;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80051742528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016058     Document Type: Article

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