Hyperbolic and plasmonic properties of Silicon/Ag aligned nanowire arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14962-14974

  Prokes, S M ^a   Glembocki, Orest J ^a   Livenere, J E ^b   U tumkur, T ^b   Kitur, J K ^b   Zhu, G ^b   Wells, B ^c   Podolskiy, V A ^c   Noginov, M A ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FORECASTING; METAMATERIALS; POLARIZATION; SILVER;

ELECTRIC FIELD SIMULATION; EMISSION QUENCHING; FABRICATED ARRAYS; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; NANOWIRE COMPOSITES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; REFLECTION SPECTRA; SILICON NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; SILVER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SILVER;

EID: 84879380785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014962     Document Type: Article

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