Mie plasmon enhanced diffraction of light from nanoporous metal surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 11964-11971

  Teperik, Tatiana V ^a,b   Popov, Vyacheslav V ^a   García De Abajo, F Javier ^b,c   Kelf, Tim A ^d   Sugawara, Yoshihiro ^d   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^d   Abdelsalem, Mamdouh ^d   Bartlett, Philip N ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

BEAM SPLITTERS; NANOPOROUS METAL SURFACES; PLASMON ENHANCED DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33845532399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011964     Document Type: Article

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