Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-91

  Gramotnev, Dmitri K ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b  

^a Nanophotonics   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; NANOSCALE RESOLUTIONS; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 76449090856     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.282     Document Type: Review

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