Mid-infrared doping tunable transmission through subwavelength metal hole arrays on InSb

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10223-10230

  Passmore, B S ^a   Allen, D G ^a   Vangala, S R ^b   Goodhue, W D ^b   Wasserman, D ^b   Shaner, E A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE; INCIDENT ANGLES; METAL HOLE ARRAY; MID-INFRARED DEVICES; MIDINFRARED; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE;

INFRARED DEVICES;

ANTIMONY; INDIUM; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; POROSITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANTIMONY; INDIUM; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; METALS; POROSITY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 66849093717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010223     Document Type: Article

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