Enhanced absorption of graphene in the visible region by use of plasmonic nanostructures

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hashemi, Mahdieh ^a,b   Farzad, Mahmood Hosseini ^b   Asger Mortensen, N ^a   Xiao, Sanshui ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

enhanced absorption; grahene; subwavelength structure; surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GRAPHENE; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ENHANCED ABSORPTION; GRAHENE; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84878298697     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/5/055003     Document Type: Article

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