Nanofocusing in the graphene-coated tapered nanowire infrared probe

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 955-960

  Zhu, Bofeng ^a   Ren, Guobin ^a   GaO, Yixiao ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Wu, BeileI ^a   Lian, Yudong ^a   Jian, Shuisheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GRAPHENE; NANOWIRES; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBES;

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATIONS; ELECTRIC-FIELD AMPLITUDE; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84982142855     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: 15208540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.32.000955     Document Type: Article

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