Vandium dioxide active plasmonics

2012 Photonics Global Conference, PGC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ooi, Kelvin J A ^a,b   Bai, Ping ^a   Chu, Hong Son ^a   Ang, Lay Kee ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

active plasmonics; plasmonic modulator; vanadium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; ACTIVE PLASMONICS; CHIP TECHNOLOGY; EXTINCTION RATIOS; INSULATOR METAL TRANSITION; PHOTONIC MODULATORS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOCIRCUITS; RING MODULATORS; VANADIUM DIOXIDE; WAVEGUIDE MODULATOR;

LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VANADIUM;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84874447892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PGC.2012.6457923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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