Surface plasmons in terahertz metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18745-18751

  Acuna, G ^a   Heucke, S F ^a   Kuchler, F ^a   Chen, H T ^b   Taylor, A J ^b   Kersting, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; METAMATERIALS;

APERTURELESS NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HIGH-FREQUENCY RESONANCE; OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SURFACE PLASMON EXCITATION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 56149094258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018745     Document Type: Article

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