How grooves reflect and confine surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10385-10392

  Kuttge, Martin ^a   De Abajo, F Javier García ^b   Polman, Albert ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFLECTION; SAILING VESSELS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FIELD PROFILE; FINITE DIFFERENCE IN TIME DOMAINS; GOLD SURFACES; GROOVE WIDTH; MODE DISPERSION; PLASMON MODES; RESONANT COUPLINGS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 66849111728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010385     Document Type: Article

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