Optical resonances of bowtie slot antennas and their geometry and material dependence

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7756-7766

  Guo, Hongcang ^a   Meyrath, Todd P ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Fu, Liwei ^a   Schweizer, Heinz ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RESONANCE; SLOT ANTENNAS; WAVELENGTH;

BOWTIE SLOT ANTENNAS; OPTICAL RESONANCES;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 44649087080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007756     Document Type: Article

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