Confining standing waves in optical corrals

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 615-620

  Babayan, Yelizaveta ^a   McMahon, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Li, Shuzhou ^a   Gray, Stephen K ^c   Schatz, George C ^a   Odom, Teri W ^a,b  

^a Department of Chemistry ^*  (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dephasing; Finitedifference time domain calculations; Metal microstructures; Near field scanning optical microscopy; Waveguide modes

Indexed keywords

DEPHASING; DIELECTRIC SURFACES; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; EVANESCENT MODES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FINITEDIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN CALCULATIONS; INCIDENT LIGHTS; METAL MICROSTRUCTURES; MICRO-SCALE; OUT-OF-PHASE; PHASE DIFFERENCES; POLARIZATION DIRECTIONS; S-POLARIZED; SOLID WALLS; STANDING WAVE PATTERNS; STANDING WAVES; THEORETICAL MODAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL RESULTS; WAVEGUIDE MODES;

ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FENCES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SCANNING; STANDING WAVE METERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVES;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 65249143300     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn8008596     Document Type: Article

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