Electrically-excited surface plasmon polaritons with directionality control

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 385-391

  Dong, Zhaogang ^a   Chu, Hong Son ^b   Zhu, Di ^a,e   Du, Wei ^c   Akimov, Yuriy A ^b   Goh, Wei Peng ^a   Wang, Tao ^c   Goh, Kuan Eng J ^a   Troadec, C ^a   Nijhuis, Christian A ^c   Yang, Joel K W ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^e USA   (United States)

Author keywords

dipole source; directional excitation; electrical excitation; scanning tunneling microscope; surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DIPOLE SOURCES; ELECTRICAL EXCITATION; HIGH-SPEED ELECTRONICS; INELASTIC TUNNELING; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84925650527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5004303     Document Type: Article

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