Theory, figures of merit, and design recipe of the plasmonic structure composed of a nano-slit aperture surrounded by surface corrugations

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2405-2414

  Li, Guangyuan ^a   Xiao, Feng ^b   Li, Kun ^a   Alameh, Kamal ^b   Xu, Anshi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aperture antennas; coupled mode analysis; design methodology; modeling; nanoscale devices; optical surface waves; performance evaluation; plasmons

Indexed keywords

APERTURE ANTENNAS; COUPLED-MODE ANALYSIS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; NANOSCALE DEVICE; OPTICAL SURFACE WAVES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MODELS; PLASMONS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE WAVES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84862642600     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2199737     Document Type: Article

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