Plasmonic meta-screen for alleviating the tradeoffs in the near-field optics

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12351-12361

  Wang, Yan ^a   Wong, Alex M H ^a   Markley, Loïc ^a   Helmy, Amr S ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; TOPOLOGY;

ARRAY ELEMENTS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; METALLIC SHEETS; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; RESONANT SLOTS; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

GLASS; METAL;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; LIGHT; METALS; MICROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 67749139789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012351     Document Type: Article

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