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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 1, 37 (2018)

Deep-subwavelength light transmission in hybrid nanowire-loaded silicon nano-rib waveguides

Yusheng Bian^1、†, Qiang Ren^1、2、†, Lei Kang¹, Taiwei Yue¹, Pingjuan L. Werner¹, and Douglas H. Werner^1、*

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¹Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA

²School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

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Yusheng Bian, Qiang Ren, Lei Kang, Taiwei Yue, Pingjuan L. Werner, Douglas H. Werner. Deep-subwavelength light transmission in hybrid nanowire-loaded silicon nano-rib waveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(1): 37 Copy Citation Text

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