Active Control of Graphene-Based Unidirectional Surface Plasmon Launcher

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1135-1140

  Bao, Yanjun ^a   Zu, Shuai ^a   Zhang, Yifei ^a   Fang, Zheyu ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

Author keywords

effective circuit model; graphene device; reflective antenna pair (RAP); surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs); unidirectional SPP launcher

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GRAPHENE; LAUNCHING; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CIRCUIT MODELING; GRAPHENE DEVICES; REFLECTIVE ANTENNA PAIR (RAP); SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; UNIDIRECTIONAL SPP LAUNCHER;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84939804953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00182     Document Type: Article

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