Hybrid dual wedge plasmonic waveguide with long-range propagation and subwavelength mode confinement

YUE Wen-Cheng; YAO Pei-Jun; CHEN Xiao-Lin; TAO Run-Xia

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.06.004

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