Optical properties of a nanosized hole in a thin metallic film

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-32

  Park, Tae Ho ^a   Mirin, Nikolay ^a   Lassiter, J Britt ^a   Nehl, Colleen L ^a   Halas, Naomi J ^a,b   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM THICKNESS; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLASMONS; THIN FILMS;

DISPERSION CURVE; NANOPHOTONICS; SUBWAVELENGTH HOLES;

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 42149133507     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn700292y     Document Type: Article

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