Focused excitation of surface plasmon polaritons based on gap-mode in tip-enhanced spectroscopy

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7995-7999

  Hayazawa, Norihiko ^a,b   Ishitobi, Hidekazu ^a   Taguchi, Atsushi ^a   Tarun, Alvarado ^a   Ikeda, Katsuyoshi ^a,c   Kawata, Satoshi ^a,b,d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDTD; Gap mode; Near field; Radial illumination; Surface plasmon polarlton; Tip enhancement

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; EXCITATION ENERGY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

RADIAL ILLUMINATION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARLTON; TIP-ENHANCEMENT;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 37549071450     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.46.7995     Document Type: Article

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