Short-Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons for Extraordinary Low Transmission Through Ultra-Thin Metal Films with Nanopatterns

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-52

  Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a,b   Bai, Wenli ^a,c   Jiang, Suhua ^d   Gao, Yongkang ^a   Li, Wendi ^e   Wu, Wei ^e   Bartoli, Filbert J ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasmons; Surface waves; Ultra thin metal films; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857994058     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9274-8     Document Type: Article

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