Laser-induced transfer of metallic nanodroplets for plasmonics and metamaterial applications

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Kuznetsov, Arseniy I ^a   Evlyukhin, Andrey B ^a   Reinhardt, Carsten ^a   Seidel, Andreas ^a   Kiyan, Roman ^a   Cheng, Wei ^a   Ovsianikov, Aleksandr ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FABRICATION; FILLED POLYMERS; GOLD; METAMATERIALS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS;

FEMTO-SECOND LASER; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GREEN'S TENSORS; HIGH QUALITY; LASER INDUCED; MICRO AND NANOSTRUCTURES; NANO-DROPLETS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION; WOODPILE STRUCTURE;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 73849149222     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.00B130     Document Type: Article

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