Enhancing surface plasmon polariton propagation by two-layer dielectric-loaded waveguides on silver surface

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-98

  Pan, Ming Yang ^a   Lin, En Hong ^a   Wang, Likarn ^a   Wei, Pei Kuen ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLEX PROPAGATION CONSTANTS; DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC-LOADED WAVEGUIDES; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84897914313     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-8003-x     Document Type: Article

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