Electrically generated unidirectional surface plasmon source

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8710-8717

  Wang, L ^a   Li, T ^a   Li, L ^a   Xia, W ^b   Xu, X G ^a   Zhu, S N ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DC CURRENT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; GRATING COUPLERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED); PLASMONIC; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84860163238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008710     Document Type: Article

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