Towards graphene plasmon-based free-electron infrared to X-ray sources

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 46-52

  Wong, Liang Jie ^a,b   Kaminer, Ido ^a   Ilic, Ognjen ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRONS; LASER THEORY; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEMETERS;

AB INITIO SIMULATIONS; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIATION; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION; NANO-FABRICATION METHODS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84947975996     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.223     Document Type: Article

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