Coherent control of plasmon propagation in a nanocircuit

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rewitz, Christian ^a   Razinskas, Gary ^a   Geisler, Peter ^a   Krauss, Enno ^a   Goetz, Sebastian ^a   Pawłowska, Monika ^a   Hecht, Bert ^a   Brixner, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTTING; DATA HANDLING; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; INTERFERENCE MECHANISMS; METAL INSULATOR INTERFACES; NANO-OPTICAL CIRCUIT; NANOELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; PLASMON PROPAGATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS;

EID: 84906872281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.1.014007     Document Type: Article

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