A New Perspective on Plasmonics: Confinement and Propagation Length of Surface Plasmons for Different Materials and Geometries

Advanced Optical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 177-184

  Dastmalchi, Babak ^a,b   Tassin, Philippe ^c   Koschny, Thomas ^a   Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Graphene; Metal insulator metal structures; Metals; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GRAPHENE; METAL ANALYSIS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SILICON CARBIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DEGREE OF CONFINEMENT; DOPED SEMICONDUCTORS; FIGURES OF MERITS; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL STRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84955203045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21951071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201500446     Document Type: Article

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