Polarization effect on superfocusing of a plasmonic lens structured with radialized and chirped elliptical nanopinholes

Plasmonics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-182

  Shi, Zhenkui ^a   Fu, Yongqi ^a,b   Zhou, Xiuli ^a   Zhu, Shaoli ^c  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elliptical nanopinholes; Focusing; Plasmonic lens; Polarization effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952585113     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9131-1     Document Type: Article

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