Engineering the input impedance of optical nano dipole antennas: Materials, geometry and excitation effect

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3144-3153

  De Arquer, F Pelayo García ^a   Volski, Vladimir ^b   Verellen, Niels ^b,c,d   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^b   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^c  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry   (Belgium)

^d IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Optical dipole antennas; plasmons; resonance; scattering

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA TOPOLOGY; DRIVING METHOD; EXCITATION MODELS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; LINEAR EXPRESSION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MATCHING PROPERTY; MATERIAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTICAL CROSS SECTIONS; OPTICAL DIPOLE ANTENNAS; PLANE WAVE EXCITATION; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; EXCITED STATES; RESONANCE;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 80052623319     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2161544     Document Type: Review

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