Tunneling mechanism of light transmission through metallic films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Garcia De Abajo F J ^a,b   Gomez Santos G ^c   Blanco, L A ^b   Borisov, A G ^d   Shabanov, S V ^e  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC INCLUSIONS; MIE RESONANCES; TUNNELING MECHANISM;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 27144438227     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.067403     Document Type: Article

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