Plasmonic optical nanoantennas

Handbook of Surface Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-136

  Chen, P Y ^a   Monticone, F ^a   Argyropoulos, C ^a   Alu A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arrays; Light localization; Metamaterials; Metasurfaces; Nanoantennas; Nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908510483     PISSN: 15734331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59526-3.00004-5     Document Type: Chapter

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