Near-field excitation of nanoantenna resonance

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13682-13688

  Bakker, Reuben M ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^b   Liu, Zhengtong ^a   Pedersen, Rasmus H ^b   Gresillon, Samuel ^c   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Drachev, Vladimir P ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GOLD; LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; QUARTZ; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NEAR-FIELD EXCITATION; PLANE WAVE ILLUMINATION; RESONANT PROPERTIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 35349021060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013682     Document Type: Article

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