Electrically tunable nonlinear plasmonics in graphene nanoislands

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cox, Joel D ^a   De Abajo, F Javier García ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHENE; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

INFRARED RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEARITY; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 84923277252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6725     Document Type: Article

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