Mid-infrared polaritonic coupling between boron nitride nanotubes and graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11305-11312

  Xu, Xiaoji G ^a   Jiang, Jian Hua ^a   Gilburd, Leonid ^a   Rensing, Rachel G ^a   Burch, Kenneth S ^a   Zhi, Chunyi ^b   Bando, Yoshio ^c   Golberg, Dmitri ^c   Walker, Gilbert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boron nitride; Graphene; Nanotube; Near field; Phonon polariton; Plasmon; s SNOM

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE DEVICES; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOTUBES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NITRIDES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; INFRARED SCATTERING; NANO-OPTICAL DEVICES; NEAR FIELDS; NONPLANAR CONFIGURATION; PHONON-POLARITON; SURFACE PHONON-POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84912544815     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504093g     Document Type: Article

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