Effective analysis of arrays of nanospheres for near-field enhancement and subwavelength imaging in the optical region

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6987, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Steshenko, Sergiy ^a   Capolino, Filippo ^a   Alitalo, Pekka ^b   Tretyakov, Sergei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Local field enhancement; Nanoparticles; Nanostructures; Periodic structures; Plasmons

Indexed keywords

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MATERIALS SCIENCE; METAL ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PIGMENTS; PRECIOUS METALS; SCANNING;

(PL) PROPERTIES; ARRAY SCANNING METHOD; DOUBLE LAYER (ELECTRIC); DOUBLE NEGATIVE (DNG); EFFECTIVE ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE (ED); EWALD METHOD; FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; INFINITE ARRAYS; INTENSE (CO); LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; METAMATERIALS (MTM); MODAL PROPERTIES; MULTILAYER (ML); NEAR FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NOBLE METALS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL RANGING; RESONANT PARTICLES; SINGLE LAYERS; SUB WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUPER RESOLUTION (SR);

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 45349083432     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.781160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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