A Surface Plasmon Microcavity Between the Toroidal and Flat Metallic Surfaces

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Vardanyan, Artashes ^a   Haroyan, Hovhannes ^a   Babajanyan, Arsen ^a   Nerkararyan, Khachatur ^a   Friedman, Barry ^b  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metallic torus; Nanofocusing; Purcell factor; Surface plasmon polariton

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857998031     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9267-7     Document Type: Article

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