Coupled leaky mode theory for light absorption in 2D, 1D, and 0D semiconductor nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 13847-13856

  Yu, Yiling ^b   Cao, Linyou ^a,b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIFFERENT SIZES; EIGEN-VALUE; EIGENVALUES; INCIDENT LIGHT; LEAKY MODES; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; PHYSICAL FEATURES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84863752360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013847     Document Type: Article

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