Efficient generation of propagating plasmons by electron beams

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1176-1181

  Cai, Wei ^a,b   Sainidou, Rebecca ^a,c   Xu, Jingjun ^b   Polman, A ^d   De Abajo, F Javier García ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^d FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; DIELECTRIC CAVITIES; ELECTRON BOMBARDMENTS; GOLD NANOWIRES; GOLD THIN FILMS; GOLD-NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; METALLIC PARTICLES; METALLIC WIRES; PLANAR CAVITIES; PLANAR FILMS; PLASMON EXCITATIONS; PLASMON GENERATIONS; PLASMON MODES; SILICA SUBSTRATES; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDING PROBLEMS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; THICK AND THIN FILMS; VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED;

ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; GOLD; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SILICA; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

GOLD; METAL; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65249153719     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl803825n     Document Type: Article

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