Enhanced thermal emission from individual antenna-like nanoheaters

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11249-11254

  Ingvarsson, Snorri ^a   Klein, Levente J ^b   Au, Yat Yin ^a   Lacey, James A ^b   Hamann, Hendrik F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ANTENNA-LIKE NANOHEATERS; HEATER STRUCTURES; RADIATION INTENSITIES;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 34548413705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011249     Document Type: Article

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