Controlling light with plasmonic multilayers

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 213-230

  Orlov, Alexey A ^a   Zhukovsky, Sergei V ^a,b   Iorsh, Ivan V ^a   Belov, Pavel A ^a  

^a ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Multilayered structures; Nanophotonics; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); METAMATERIALS; NANOPHOTONICS; PLASMONS;

EMERGING APPLICATIONS; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE; PLASMONIC MULTILAYER; PLASMONICS; SPATIAL DISPERSION;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84901753289     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2014.03.003     Document Type: Review

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