Image Dipole Method for the Beaming of Plasmons from Point Sources

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1307-1312

  Zhu, Di ^a,d   Dong, Zhaogang ^a   Chu, Hong Son ^b   Akimov, Yuriy A ^b   Yang, Joel K W ^a,c  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^d USA   (United States)

Author keywords

dipole; directional propagation; image dipole; plasmon reflection; surface plasmon polariton

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

COHERENT EXCITATIONS; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; DIPOLE; ELECTRICAL EXCITATION; IMAGE DIPOLE; PLASMON REFLECTIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84925635339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500324e     Document Type: Article

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