Long-range spiralling surface plasmon modes on metallic nanowires

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13617-13623

  Schmidt, M A ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; GUIDED MODES; HELICAL-PATH; METALLIC NANOWIRES; OHMIC LOSS; SIMPLE MODELING; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

NANOWIRES;

METAL; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 51149102656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013617     Document Type: Article

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