Ultrasmall metal-insulator-metal nanoresonators: Impact of slow-wave effects on the quality factor

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16880-16891

  Yang, J ^a   Sauvan, C ^a,b,c   Jouanin, A ^a   S Collin, ^d   Pelouard, J L ^d   Lalanne, P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; MIM DEVICES;

BRUTE-FORCE COMPUTATION; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FABRY-PEROT MODELS; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; METAL INSULATOR METALS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MODE LIFETIME; NANORESONATORS; Q-FACTORS; QUALITY FACTOR Q; QUALITY FACTORS; QUASI-STATIC REGIME; RADIATION LOSS; RETARDATION EFFECT; SEMI-ANALYTICAL EXPRESSION; SLOW-WAVE EFFECT; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; ULTRA-SMALL;

WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 84864135880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016880     Document Type: Article

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