Nanoillumination based on self-focus and field enhancement inside a subwavelength metallic structure

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Cheng ^a   Chen, Nanguang ^a   Sheppard, Colin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIELD ENHANCEMENT; METALLIC SCREENS; NANOILLUMINATION; SUBWAVELENGTH METALLIC STRUCTURES;

LIGHTING;

EID: 33846059854     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2425029     Document Type: Article

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