A standing-wave interpretation of plasmon resonance excitation in split-ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 14280-14292

  Chen, Wen Yu ^a   Lin, Chun Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; INCIDENT ANGLES; INCIDENT FIELDS; INCIDENT RADIATION; KEY FACTORS; NEAR FIELDS; P-FACTOR; PLASMON MODES; PLASMON RESONANCES; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZED WAVE; RIGHT AND LEFT; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; WAVE APPROACH;

RING GAGES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77953816232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014280     Document Type: Article

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