Multiband plasmonic absorber based on transverse phase resonances

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17552-17559

  Cui, Yanxia ^a,b,c   Fung, Kin Hung ^b,d   Xu, Jun ^b,d   He, Sailing ^c   Fang, Nicholas X ^b,d  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLIC COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORPTION PEAKS; ALIGNMENT ERROR; LATTICE SCATTERING; METALLIC SURFACE; MODE SPLITTING; MULTIBAND; PHASE RESONANCES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; RESONANT MODE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84864587765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017552     Document Type: Article

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