Surface plasmon modes in graphene wedge and groove waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 32432-32440

  Liu, Penghong ^a,b   Zhang, Xinzheng ^a,b   Ma, Zenghong ^a,b   Cai, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a,b   Xu, Jingjun ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SynBio Research Platform   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE RIBBONS; PERFECT ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR; PERFECT MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; SYMMETRIC MODE;

GRAPHENE; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84891787732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.032432     Document Type: Article

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