Nanowire metal-insulator-metal plasmonic devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8883, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Haus, Joseph W ^a   Li, Li ^a   Katte, Nkorni ^b   Deng, Cong ^a   Scalora, Michael ^c   De Ceglia, Domenico ^c   Vincenti, Maria Antonietta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b Wilberforce University   (United States)

^c US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD WAVELENGTH BAND; LIGHT ILLUMINATION; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; METAL INSULATOR METALS; PLASMONIC DEVICES; RESPONSIVITY;

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MIM DEVICES; NANOWIRES;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 84883868009     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2022127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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