3438-3443 Experimental investigation of superfocusing of plasmonic lens with chirped circular nanoslits

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3438-3443

  Fu, Yongqi ^a,b   Liu, Yu ^a   Zhou, Xiuli ^a   Xu, Zongwei ^c   Fang, Fengzhou ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; LENSES; MICROSCOPES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMONS; QUARTZ; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; AU FILM; BIO-IMAGING; DIRECT MILLING; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FOCUSING PERFORMANCE; NANOSLITS; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PLASMONIC LENS; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; SUBMICRON SCALE; SUPERFOCUSING; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77149179353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003438     Document Type: Article

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