Plasmonic data storage medium with metallic nano-aperture array embedded in dielectric material

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20203-20210

  Park, Sinjeung ^a   Hahn, Jae Won ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADJACENT TRACK; APERTURE ARRAYS; BLU-RAY DISC; BOWTIE APERTURE; DATA STORAGE; NANOAPERTURE ARRAYS; THRESHOLD POWER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70749141027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020203     Document Type: Article

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