Obtaining super resolution light spot using surface plasmon assisted sharp ridge nanoaperture

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Jin, Eric X ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOWTIE APERTURE; LIGHT SPOT; SHARP RIDGE NANOAPERTURE; TRANSMISSION MECHANISM;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 17944363467     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1875747     Document Type: Article

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