Experimental realization of subradiant, superradiant, and fano resonances in ring/disk plasmonic nanocavities

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1664-1670

  Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a   Verellen, Niels ^b,c   Sobhani, Heidar ^d   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^c   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^c   Van Dorpe, Pol ^b   Nordlander, Peter ^d   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fano resonance; Optical nanocavities; Plasmonics; Subradiance; Superradiance

Indexed keywords

FANO RESONANCES; OPTICAL NANOCAVITIES; PLASMONICS; SUBRADIANCE; SUBRADIANCES;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; RADIATION; RESONANCE; SUPERRADIANCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 77950134383     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901580r     Document Type: Article

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