Effects of the surrounding medium on the optical properties of a subwavelength aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23861-23866

  Lopatiuk Tirpak, Olena ^a   Fathpour, Sasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT REFRACTION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

C-SHAPED; DIELECTRIC SLABS; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; METALLIC LAYERS; POWER THROUGHPUT; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SEMI-INFINITE; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; SURROUNDING MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION MODE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SILVER;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 73949106738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023861     Document Type: Article

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