Tunable broad-band perfect absorber by exciting of multiple plasmon resonances at optical frequency

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 14871-14878

  Wang, Junqiao ^a   Fan, Chunzhen ^a   Ding, Pei ^b   He, Jinna ^a   Cheng, Yongguang ^a   Hu, Weiqin ^a   Cai, Genwang ^a   Liang, Erjun ^a   Xue, Qianzhong ^c  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

BROAD BANDS; CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PERFECT ABSORBER; PLASMON RESONANCES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; UNIT CELLS; VISIBLE REGION;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863747711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014871     Document Type: Article

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