Plasmon blockade in nanostructured graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1724-1731

  Manjavacas, Alejandro ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^b   García De Abajo, F Javier ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

graphene nanodisk; graphene plasmons; nanophotonics; nonclassical plasmons; plasmon blockade; quantum plasmonics; strong coupling

Indexed keywords

BLOCKADE EFFECT; DOPING LEVELS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANODISKS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONICS; SECOND-ORDER CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; STRONG COUPLING; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; STRONGLY NONLINEAR;

GRAPHENE; NANOPHOTONICS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84857752598     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204701w     Document Type: Article

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