Radiation-Suppressed plasmonic open resonators designed by nonmagnetic transformation optics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Xu, Hongyi ^a   Wang, Xingjue ^a   Yu, Tianyuan ^a   Sun, Handong ^a   Zhang, Baile ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84869163825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00784     Document Type: Article

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