Broadband monopole optical nano-antennas

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8985, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Rongguo ^a   Ding, Jun ^a   Arigong, Bayaner ^a   Lin, Yuankun ^a   Zhang, Hualiang ^a  

^a Center for Advanced Research and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband monopole; Optical nano antenna

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

BROADBAND MONOPOLE; FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; NANO ANTENNAS; NOVEL DESIGN; OPTICAL ANTENNAE; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; OPTICAL NANO ANTENNAS; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84901767637     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2037868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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