Experimental demonstration of CMOS-compatible long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguides (LR-DLSPPWs)

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 22009-22017

  Zektzer, Roy ^a   Desiatov, Boris ^a   Mazurski, Noa ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; SILICON NITRIDE; SILICON OXIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES; DIELECTRIC-LOADED SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SILICON OXIDE LAYERS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; WAVEGUIDE CONFIGURATIONS;

STRIP METAL;

EID: 84907283306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.022009     Document Type: Article

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