Tunability of subradiant dipolar and fano-type plasmon resonances in metallic ring/disk cavities: Implications for nanoscale optical sensing

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 643-652

  Hao, Feng ^a,b,c   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b,c   Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a,b,c   Van Dorpe, Pol ^a,b,c   Maier, Stefan A ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fano resonances; Optical nanocavities; Plasmonics; Surface enhanced spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BROKEN SYMMETRIES; FANO INTERFERENCES; FANO RESONANCES; FIELD ENHANCEMENTS; HARMONIC OSCILLATOR MODELS; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDICES; MID-INFRARED; NANO-CAVITIES; NANO-SCALE; OPTICAL NANOCAVITIES; OPTICAL SENSING; PLASMON MODES; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONICS; SPECTRAL TUNABILITY; SURFACE ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY; TUNABILITY;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MODEL STRUCTURES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 65249121894     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900012r     Document Type: Article

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