Transmission of light through thin silver films via surface plasmon-polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5881-5886

  Giannattasio, Armando ^a   Hooper, Ian R ^a   Barnes, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILVER; THIN FILMS;

EVANESCENT WAVES; FILM THICKNESS; OPTICS OF METALS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 10444237296     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005881     Document Type: Article

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