Nanowire-based plasmonic waveguides and devices for integrated nanophotonic circuits

Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-169

  Wei, Hong ^a   Xu, Hongxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Nanophotonic circuits; Nanowires; Surface plamon polaritons

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRICAL GENERATION; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; INTEGRATION APPLICATION; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; NANOELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84874417403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0012     Document Type: Review

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