Local detection of electromagnetic energy transport below the diffraction limit in metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 229-232

  Maier, Stefan A ^a   Kik, Pieter G ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a   Meltzer, Sheffer ^b   Harel, Elad ^b   Koel, Bruce E ^b   Requicha, Ari A G ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY TRANSPORT; METAL NANOPARTICLE PLASMON WAVEGUIDES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTROMAGNETICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0037868904     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat852     Document Type: Letter

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