Role of metal film thickness on the enhanced transmission properties of a periodic array of subwavelength apertures

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9834-9840

  Shou, Xiang ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a   Nahata, Ajay ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; METALLIC FILMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SKIN DEPTH; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; THIN METAL FILMS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 28044463121     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009834     Document Type: Article

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