Emission enhancement in a plasmonic waveguide at cut-off

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 141-152

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Molecular emission; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; EXTERNAL RESONANT; MOLECULAR EMISSIONS; OPTICAL EMITTER; PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONICS; RESONANT STRUCTURES; RESONANT SYSTEMS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84871343483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4010141     Document Type: Article

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