Compressing surface plasmons for nano-scale optical focusing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7519-7524

  Choi, Hyeunseok ^a   Pile, David F P ^a   Nam, Sunghyun ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; NANO-METER SCALE; OPTICAL ENERGY; OPTICAL FOCUSING; POWER EFFICIENCY; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 66649089843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007519     Document Type: Article

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