Cathodoluminescent spectroscopic imaging of surface plasmon polaritons in a 1-dimensional plasmonic crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23664-23671

  Suzuki, T ^a   Yamamoto, N ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; LUMINESCENCE; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER; SOLIDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BAND EDGE; DETECTION SYSTEM; DISPERSION CURVES; PLASMONIC CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; STANDING WAVE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

PLASMONS;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 73949107724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023664     Document Type: Article

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