An electrically-driven GaAs nanowire surface plasmon source

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4943-4947

  Fan, Pengyu ^a   Colombo, Carlo ^b   Huang, Kevin C Y ^a   Krogstrup, Peter ^c   Nygård, Jesper ^c   Fontcuberta I Morral, Anna ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

nanowire light emitting diode; plasmonic circuitry; subwavelength light source; Surface plasmon light source

Indexed keywords

CHIP-SCALE; ELECTRICAL EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FULL-FIELD; GAAS; GUIDING PROPERTIES; KEY ELEMENTS; LINEAR WAVEGUIDES; NANOWIRE SURFACE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONICS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SUBWAVELENGTH LIGHTS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

BIOSENSORS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARSENICALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GALLIUM; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866318098     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302521v     Document Type: Article

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