High sensitivity of surface plasmon of weakly-distorted metallic surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9766-9773

  Liu, Wei Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISTORTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

COORDINATE-TRANSFORMATION DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; METALLIC SURFACES; SURFACE PLASMON MODES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 28044472944     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009766     Document Type: Article

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