Perfect Absorption of Light by Coherently Induced Plasmon Hybridization in Ultrathin Metamaterial Film

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 733-738

  Pu, Mingbo ^a   Feng, Qin ^a,b   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b SOUTHWESTERN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Perfect absorber; Plasmon hybridization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868548130     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9365-1     Document Type: Article

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