Nanocircuit loading of plasmonic waveguides

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4381-4390

  Polemi, Alessia ^a   Alù, Andrea ^b   Engheta, Nader ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanocircuit; nanoparticles; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION CURRENT; DISPLACEMENT CURRENTS; EQUIVALENT IMPEDANCE; NANOCIRCUIT; NANOFILTERS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONICS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

NANOFILTRATION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

LOADING;

EID: 84866039210     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207065     Document Type: Article

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