Coherent perfect absorption in deeply subwavelength films in the single-photon regime

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Roger, Thomas ^a   Vezzoli, Stefano ^b   Bolduc, Eliot ^a   Valente, Joao ^c   Heitz, Julius J F ^a   Jeffers, John ^d   Soci, Cesare ^b   Leach, Jonathan ^a   Couteau, Christophe ^b,e,f   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^b,c   Faccio, Daniele ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^e RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; HEATING; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; DATA PROCESSING; HEATING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84930196176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8031     Document Type: Article

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