Bends and splitters in graphene nanoribbon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3486-3491

  Zhu, Xiaolong ^a   Yan, Wei ^a   Asger Mortensen, N ^a   Xiao, Sanshui ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TERAHERTZ REGION;

WAVEGUIDES;

GRAPHITE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874050112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003486     Document Type: Article

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