Highly Efficient and Tailorable On-Chip Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmonic Nanofocusing Cavity

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 944-953

  Li, Zheng ^a   Kou, Jun Long ^a   Kim, Myungki ^a   Lee, Jeong Oen ^a   Choo, Hyuck ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

nanofocusing; nanoscale optical cavity; on chip nanophotonics; plasmonics; surface plasmon polaritons; tailorable nanoscale mirrors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METALS; MIM DEVICES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; WAVEGUIDES;

NANO SCALE; NANO-FOCUSING; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

EID: 84961291662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500097m     Document Type: Article

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