The optical response of nanostructured surfaces and the composite diffracted evanescent wave model

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 262-267

  Gay, G ^a   Alloschery, O ^a   De Lesegno, B Viaris ^a,d   O'Dwyer, C ^a,e   Weiner, J ^a   Lezec, H J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE WAVES;

HIGH TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; RESONANCE EXCITATION; RESONANT EXCITATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33645768940     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys264     Document Type: Article

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