Optimizing substrate-mediated plasmon coupling toward high-performance plasmonic nanowire waveguides

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8128-8135

  Zhang, Shunping ^a   Xu, Hongxing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

nanowire; plasmonic waveguides; silicon compatible; SPPs; substrate

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; ELECTRO-OPTICAL; HIGH-PERMITTIVITY SUBSTRATE; HYBRIDIZED MODES; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANO-METER SCALE; NANOWIRE WAVEGUIDES; NEAR INFRARED REGION; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; PROPAGATION LOSS; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SILICON TECHNOLOGIES; SPPS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THIN WIRES; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERMITTIVITY; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

SUBSTRATES;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866720740     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302755a     Document Type: Article

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