Plasmonic candle: Towards efficient nanofocusing with channel plasmon polaritons

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Volkov, V S ^a   Gosciniak, J ^a   Bozhevolnyi, S I ^a   Rodrigo, S G ^b   Martin Moreno L ^b   Garcia Vidal F J ^c   Devaux, E ^d   Ebbesen, T W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL PLASMON-POLARITONS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIELD INTENSITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; GOLD FILM; GROOVE WIDTH; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; METAL GROOVES; NANO-FOCUSING; PHOTONIC COMPONENTS; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; STRONG CONFINEMENT; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; V GROOVES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PLASMONS;

EID: 72049091220     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113043     Document Type: Article

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