Large-scale nanophotonic phased array

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7431, 2013, Pages 195-199

  Sun, Jie ^a   Timurdogan, Erman ^a   Yaacobi, Ami ^a   Hosseini, Ehsan Shah ^a   Watts, Michael R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HOLOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVE; SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HOLOGRAPHY; NANOPHOTONIC PHASED ARRAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84872164138     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11727     Document Type: Article

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