Silver superlens using antisymmetric surface plasmon modes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5459-5465

  Lee, Wook Jae ^a   Kim, Jae Eun ^a   Park, Hae Yong ^a   Lee, Myung Hyun ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PLASMONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; ANTISYMMETRIC MODE; EVANESCENT WAVE; FREE-SPACE WAVELENGTHS; PENETRATION DEPTH; SILVER LENS; SILVER SUPERLENS; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; SUPER RESOLUTION; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; SURFACE PLASMONS; THREE-LAYER SYSTEMS; UV REGION; WAVE VECTOR;

SILVER;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77949595941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005459     Document Type: Article

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