Nanoengineering and characterization of gold dipole nanoantennas with enhanced integrated scattering properties

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 42, 2009, Pages

  Wissert, Matthias D ^a   Schell, Andreas W ^a   Ilin, Konstantin S ^a   Siegel, Michael ^a   Eisler, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEED GAP; ANTENNA RESONANCE; DARK FIELD MICROSCOPY; FIGURE OF MERIT; LINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; NANO-ENGINEERING; NANOANTENNAS; SCATTERING INTENSITY; SCATTERING PROBABILITIES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; TOTAL LENGTH;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING;

GOLD;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ELECTRON BEAM; NANOENGINEERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 70349653976     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/42/425203     Document Type: Article

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