Transparent subdiffraction optics: Nanoscale light confinement without metal

Optica

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 96-100

  Jahani, Saman ^a   Jacob, Zubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETS; METAMATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFRACTION LIMIT OF LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MICROWAVE FREQUENCY RANGES; NANOSCALE ELECTRONICS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PLASMONICS; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE;

LIGHT;

EID: 84921300511     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000096     Document Type: Article

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