Near-infrared surface plasmon polariton dispersion control with hyperbolic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 11107-11114

  Luk, Ting S ^a   Kim, Iltai ^a   Campione, Salvatore ^b   Howell, Stephen W ^a   Subramania, Ganapathi S ^a   Grubbs, Robert K ^a   Brener, Igal ^a   Chen, Hou Tong ^c   Fan, Shanhui ^d   Sinclair, Michael B ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INFRARED DEVICES; METAMATERIALS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

DISPERSION PROPERTIES; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROXIMATION; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; PHOTONIC DENSITY OF STATE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INFRARED RADIATION; MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84878537130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011107     Document Type: Article

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