Optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Maksymov, Ivan S ^a   Staude, Isabelle ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

All dielectric nanoantennas; Nanoparticles; Optical nanoantennas; Plasmonics; Purcell factor; Spectral tuning; Yagi Uda antennas

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOANTENNAS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; TELEVISION ANTENNAS;

EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES; HIGH PERMITTIVITY DIELECTRIC; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PURCELL FACTOR; SPECTRAL TUNING; YAGI-UDA ANTENNA DESIGN; YAGI-UDA ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 84920734843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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