An electromechanically reconfigurable plasmonic metamaterial operating in the near-infrared

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 252-255

  Ou, Jun Yu ^a   Plum, Eric ^a   Zhang, Jianfa ^a   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INFRARED DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SILICON NITRIDE; SUBSTRATES; TUNING;

MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; NANOSCALE BUILDING BLOCKS; OPTICAL SIGNAL MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE; SILICON NITRIDE MEMBRANE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS;

SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PLASMONIC METAMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84876414178     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.25     Document Type: Article

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