Experimental realization of optical lumped nanocircuits at infrared wavelengths

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 208-212

  Sun, Yong ^a   Edwards, Brian ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a,b   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

DATA STORAGE TECHNOLOGY; EQUIVALENT IMPEDANCE; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; LUMPED CIRCUIT ELEMENTS; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; PARALLEL COMBINATION; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY;

NANOSTRUCTURES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84857363039     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3230     Document Type: Article

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