Numerical prediction of minimum sub-diffraction-limit image generated by silver surface plasmon lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 21039-21052

  Fujii, Masafumi ^a   Freude, Wolfgang ^b   Leuthold, Juerg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

3-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; LAYERED STRUCTURES; METAL-DIELECTRIC STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; SUB-DIFFRACTION LIMIT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 57349124920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021039     Document Type: Article

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