Maneuvering propagation of surface plasmon polaritons using complementary medium inserts

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 741-747

  Zhu, Weiren ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; plasmonics; waveguide devices

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SURFACE; CURVED INTERFACE; FABRICATION PROCESS; GENERIC METHOD; LOSSLESS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; MODE PATTERNS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PLASMONS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861127427     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2196763     Document Type: Article

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