Analysis and Optimum Design of Hybrid Plasmonic Slab Waveguides

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1155-1168

  Talafi Noghani, Mahmoud ^a   Vadjed Samiei, Mohammad H ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hybrid plasmonic slab waveguide; Plasmonics; Transfer matrix method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877634586     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9526-x     Document Type: Article

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