Metal-insulator-metal nanorod arrays for subwavelength imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2818-2825

  Wu, Xiaofei ^a   Zhang, Jiasen ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; MIM DEVICES; NANORODS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AU NANO RODS; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE TRANSFER; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NANO-ROD ARRAYS; RESOLUTION LIMITS; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING;

GOLD;

GOLD; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NANOTUBES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 60549117989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002818     Document Type: Article

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