Directional excitation of graphene surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2383-2391

  Liu, Fangli ^a   Qian, Cheng ^b   Chong, Y D ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; GRAPHENE PLASMONS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; INCIDENT ILLUMINATION; MAGNETIC BIAS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84922822379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.002383     Document Type: Article

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