An active hybrid plasmonic metamaterial

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-37

  Gu, Jianqiang ^a,b   Singh, Ranjan ^b,c   Azad, Abul K ^c   Han, Jiaguang ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^c   O'Hara, John F ^b,c   Zhang, Weili ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BAND-STOP; ELECTROMAGNETIC BEHAVIOR; EPITAXIAL SILICON; HOLE ARRAYS; INFRARED LIGHT; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; RESONANT TRANSMISSIONS; SILICON FILMS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPOSITE FILMS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84862127640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000031     Document Type: Article

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