Optical surface waves over metallo-dielectric nanostructures: Sommerfeld integrals revisited

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9073-9086

  Ung, Bora ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DIFFRACTION PROBLEM; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; METALLO-DIELECTRIC NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL SURFACE WAVES; SOMMERFELD INTEGRALS;

SURFACE WAVES;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 45249091646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009073     Document Type: Article

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