Resonant-plasmon field enhancement from asymmetrically illuminated conical metallic-probe tips

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2921-2931

  Roth, Ryan M ^a   Panoiu, Nicolae C ^a   Adams, Matthew M ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a   Neacsu, Catalin C ^b   Raschke, Markus B ^b  

^a Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES;

3D FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; METALLIC-PROBE TIPS; RESONANT-PLASMON FIELD ENHANCEMENT;

OPTICS;

EID: 33645528063     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002921     Document Type: Article

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