Cavity resonances of metal-dielectric-metal nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10315-10322

  Joshi, Bhuwan P ^a   Wei, Qi Huo ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; NANOANTENNAS; NANORODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE;

ANTENNA RESONANCE; CAVITY RESONANCES; CAVITY RESONANT FREQUENCIES; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; MANUFACTURABILITY; METAL DIELECTRICS; SCATTERING SPECTRA; SINGLE MOLECULE SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 47249117949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010315     Document Type: Article

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