On surface plasmon enhanced near-field transducers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5380, Issue , 2004, Pages 360-367

  Olkkonen, Juuso ^a,b   Kataja, Kari ^a   Aikio, Janne ^a   Howe, Dennis ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

BOR FDTD; Near field optical recording; Near field transducers; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC RECORDING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; SILVER; TRANSDUCERS;

BOR-FDTD; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING (HAMR); NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL RECORDING; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLANERS;

EID: 10044235423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.556798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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