Funneling light through a subwavelength aperture with epsilon-near-zero materials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Adams, D C ^a   Inampudi, S ^a   Ribaudo, T ^a   Slocum, D ^a   Vangala, S ^a   Kuhta, N A ^b   Goodhue, W D ^a   Podolskiy, V A ^a   Wasserman, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; COUPLING SYSTEMS; LIMITING FACTORS; MATERIAL LAYERS; MATERIAL LOSS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 80053122421     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.133901     Document Type: Article

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