Investigation of multilayer subwavelength metallic-dielectric stratified structures

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1554-1559

  He, Xiao Yong ^a   Wang, Qi Jie ^a,b   Yu, Siu Fung ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Metamaterils; plasmonics; terahertz

Indexed keywords

BROAD APPLICATION; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; EFFECTIVE INDEX; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; GAIN MATERIALS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HIGH FLEXIBILITY; MATERIAL GAIN; METAMATERILS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PLASMONICS; STRATIFIED STRUCTURE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUPERLENSES; TERA HERTZ; UNIT CELLS;

CELLS; DISPERSIONS; NANOPHOTONICS;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84869764626     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2219504     Document Type: Article

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