Nanoscale dielectric-graphene-dielectric tunable infrared waveguide with ultrahigh refractive indices

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 17089-17096

  Zhu, Bofeng ^a   Ren, Guobin ^a   Zheng, Siwen ^a   Lin, Zhen ^a   Jian, Shuisheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; GRAPHENE; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROACHES; FAR INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; GRAPHENE LAYERS; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; INFRARED WAVEGUIDE; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; ULTRA-HIGH MODES; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

WAVEGUIDES;

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INFRARED RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; INFRARED RAYS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84880563190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017089     Document Type: Article

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