Spectrally selective chiral silicon metasurfaces based on infrared Fano resonances

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wu, Chihhui ^a   Arju, Nihal ^a   Kelp, Glen ^a   Fan, Jonathan A ^b   Dominguez, Jason ^c,d   Gonzales, Edward ^e   Tutuc, Emanuel ^c,d   Brener, Igal ^c,d   Shvets, Gennady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE; SILICON; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONICS; INFRARED FANO RESONANCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PERIODICITY; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84901485855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4892     Document Type: Article

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