• DocumentCode
    689785
  • Title

    Radiation pattern of plasmonic Yagi-Uda antennas in a homogeneous medium realized by liquid-immersion method

  • Author

    Sugita, Tsuyoshi ; Maeda, Shigenobu ; Hofmann, Heath F. ; Kadoya, Yutaka

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Adv. Sci. of Matter, Hiroshima Univ., Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The radiation pattern of plasmon-based optical Yagi-Uda antenna was measured in a quasi-homogeneous medium realized by immersing the antenna in a liquid. The directional gain of the 5-element antenna was found to be about 3.7, consistently with the theoretical prediction.
  • Keywords
    Yagi antenna arrays; measurement by laser beam; metamaterial antennas; plasmonics; surface plasmons; directional gain; liquid-immersion method; plasmon-based optical Yagi-Uda antenna; quasihomogeneous medium; radiation pattern measurement; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Directive antennas; Measurement by laser beam; Optical variables measurement; Substrates; Yagi-Uda antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834172