Refracting surface plasmon polaritons with nanoparticle arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3924-3930

  Radko, Ilya P ^a   Evlyukhin, Andrey B ^b   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^c   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a,d  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b VLADIMIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TENSORS; WAVELENGTH;

GREEN'S TENSOR FORMALISMS; NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; SPP REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS (SPP);

PLASMONS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 41149111078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003924     Document Type: Article

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