Guided plasmon modes of triangular and inverted triangular cross-section silver nanoridges

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 950-958

  Pan, Zeyu ^a   Guo, Junpeng ^a   Soref, Richard ^b   Buchwald, Walter ^c   Sun, Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION CURVES; FLAT-TOP; HYBRID MODE; METAL WEDGES; MODE APPROACH; MODE FIELDS; NANORIDGES; PLASMON MODES; PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SILVER METAL; TRIANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; TRIANGULAR WAVEGUIDE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84861364872     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.000950     Document Type: Article

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