Design, fabrication, and characterization of nanometer-scale ridged aperture optical antennae

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6106, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Xu, Xianfan ^a   Jin, Eric X ^a   Wang, Liang ^a   Uppuluri, Sreemanth ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowtie aperture; Localized surface plasmon; Optical nanolithography; Optical transmission enhancement; Ridge aperture; Waveguide mode

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

BOWTIE APERTURE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; OPTICAL NANOLITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT; RIDGE APERTURE; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33646547986     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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