High transmission efficiency for surface plasmon resonance by use of a dielectric grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 6017-6022

  Lenaerts, Cedric ^a   Michel, Fabrice ^a   Tilkens, Bernard ^a   Lion, Yves ^a   Renotte, Yvon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTION;

REFLECTION SPECTRUM; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES; WAVE THOERY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 28044444082     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006017     Document Type: Article

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