Quality Factor of a Nanobowtie Antenna

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 3107-3114

  Ni, Chi Yu Adrian ^a   Chang, Shu Wei ^a   Chuang, Shun Lien ^a   Schuck, P James ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowtie antenna; finite difference time domain method (FDTD); quality factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008018959     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2164780     Document Type: Article

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