Novel Dielectric-Loaded Plasmonic Waveguide for Tight-Confined Hybrid Plasmon Mode

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1259-1263

  Ma, Youqiao ^a   Farrell, Gerald ^a   Semenova, Yuliya ^a   Chan, Hau Ping ^b   Zhang, Hongzhou ^c   Wu, Qiang ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dielectric loaded plasmonic waveguide; Optical waveguide; Surface plasmon resonant

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877626090     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9543-9     Document Type: Article

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