Nanofocusing in laterally tapered plasmonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-57

  Verhagen, Ewold ^a   Polman, Albert ^a   Kuipers, L ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONIC NANOFOCUSING; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP);

GOLD;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 38049107216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000045     Document Type: Article

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