Gap-dependent chiral coupling in T-shaped gold nanodimers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6988, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kauranen, Martti ^a   Husu, Hannu ^a   Canfield, Brian K ^a   Laukkanen, Janne ^b   Bai, Benfeng ^b   Kuittinen, Markku ^b   Turunen, Jari P ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chirality; Circular difference; Metal nanostructure; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

GOLD; HARMONIC GENERATION; PHOTONICS;

BROKEN SYMMETRY (BS); GAP SIZE; LOCAL FIELDS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NANO-PHOTONICS; ORTHOGONAL ORIENTATIONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION (SHG); T-SHAPED; UNIT CELLS;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 45149102349     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.780513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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