Actively tunable bistable optical Yagi-Uda nanoantenna

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8929-8938

  Maksymov, Ivan S ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

BISTABLES; BOW TIE; FAR-FIELD ZONES; FREE CARRIER DENSITY; NANOANTENNAS; NARROW BANDS; SUBWAVELENGTH LIGHTS; ULTRAFAST CONTROL;

OPTICS;

EID: 84860120740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008929     Document Type: Article

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