The role of localized surface plasmon modes in the enhanced transmission of periodic subwavelength apertures

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Degiron, A ^a   Ebbesen, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Aperture; Subwavelength; Surface plasmons; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

APERTURE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON (LSP); PERIODIC ARRAYS; PLASMON MODES; SUBWAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRANSMISSION PEAKS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 22744435015     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/7/2/012     Document Type: Article

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