Engineering the optical response of plasmonic nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9144-9154

  Fischer, Holger ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; GEOMETRY; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NANOANTENNAS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS;

BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GREEN'S TENSOR TECHNIQUE; MULTIPLE RESONANCES; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

ANTENNAS;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; 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: 45449083311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009144     Document Type: Article

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