Graphene nano-ribbon waveguides of recordsmall mode area and ultra-high effective refractive indices for future VLSI

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 30664-30673

  He, Sailing ^a,b   Zhang, Xizhou ^a   He, Yingran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MICROELECTRONICS; NANORIBBONS; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES;

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; VERY-LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATION;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84890512529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.030664     Document Type: Article

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