Color-switched directional ultracompact optical nanoantennas

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1361-1366

  Lavasani, S H Alavi ^a   Pakizeh, Tavakol ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES;

END-FIRE; HYBRIDIZED MODES; NANOANTENNAS; NANODISKS; PLASMONIC INTERACTIONS; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS;

COLOR;

EID: 84861796535     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.001361     Document Type: Article

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