Localized field enhancements in fractal shaped periodic metal nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15234-15241

  Beermann, Jonas ^a   Radko, Ilya P ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GOLD; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

PERIODIC METAL NANOSTRUCTURES; TWO-PHOTON PHOTOLUMINESCENCE (TPL); WAVELENGTH RANGE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 36248988621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015234     Document Type: Article

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