Propagation length of surface plasmons in a metal film with roughness

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 5683-5691

  Kolomenski, Andrei ^a   Kolomenskii, Alexandre ^a   Noel, John ^a   Peng, Siying ^a   Schuessler, Hans ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; ATTENUATION LENGTHS; EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; GOLD AND SILVER; GOLD FILM; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 70350333952     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005683     Document Type: Article

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