Anomalous near-perfect extraordinary optical absorption on sub wavelength thin metal film grating

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20502-20504

  Dai, Lei ^a   Jiang, Chun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALLIC FILMS; METALS;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; DOUBLE EFFECTS; PLASMONIC MODES; SINGLE-LAYER METAL; STRONG COUPLING; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THIN METAL FILMS; WEAK COUPLINGS;

PLASMONS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70749154788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020502     Document Type: Article

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