Phase and polarization control as a route to plasmonic nanodevices

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 715-719

  Sukharev, Maxim ^a   Seideman, Tamar ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; OPTICAL LOGIC; PLASMONIC NANODEVICES; SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 33646424366     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0524896     Document Type: Article

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