Tailoring coupling of light to local plasmons by using Ag nanorods/structured dielectric/mirror sandwiches

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Suzukia, Motofumi ^a   Imaia, Yoshikatsu ^a   Tokunagaa, Hiroki ^a   Nakajimaa, Kaoru ^a   Kimuraa, Kenji ^a   Fukuokab, Takao ^b   Moric, Yasushige ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Columnar thin films; Local plasmon; Nanorod; Oblique angle deposition; Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; REFLECTION; SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN FILMS;

COLUMNAR THIN FILMS; DIELECTRIC LAYER; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; LOCAL PLASMON; NEAR INFRARED REGION; OBLIQUE-ANGLE DEPOSITION; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ANTI-REFLECTION; EFFECTIVE MEDIA; NANO-STRUCTURED;

NANORODS;

EID: 65449177237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3079804     Document Type: Article

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