Plasmonic laser antennas and related devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1448-1461

  Cubukcu, Ertugrul ^a   Yu, Nanfang ^a   Smythe, Elizabeth J ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Crozier, Kenneth B ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold nanoparticles; Near field optics; Surface plasmons (SPs); Surfaceenhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LASERS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MICROSCOPES; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RECORDING; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANTENNA DESIGNS; BOWTIE ANTENNAS; CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; DEVICE APPLICATIONS; DIFFRACTION LIMITEDS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIBER DEVICES; FIELD ENHANCEMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FOCUSED ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHIES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANORODS; GOLD PARTICLES; HIGH DENSITIES; HOT SPOTS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMONS; NEAR-FIELD OPTICS; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; OPTICAL DATUMS; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; OPTICAL SPOTS; OPTICAL-; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; QUANTUM CASCADES; REFLECTION SPECTRUMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODES; SILICA GLASSES; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SURFACE PLASMONS (SPS); SURFACEENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (SERS); TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

ANTENNAS;

BEAMS; DATA PROCESSING; DIODES; GLASS; GOLD; LASERS; LIGHT; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; RODS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILICA; SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

EID: 58149132287     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.912747     Document Type: Article

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