Efficient coupling and field enhancement for the nano-scale: Plasmonic needle

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 14079-14086

  Normatov, Alexander ^a   Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Berkovitch, Nikolai ^a   Lerman, Gilad M ^b   Yanai, Avner ^b   Levy, Uriel ^b   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NEEDLES; PLASMONS;

EFFICIENT COUPLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT; METAL SURFACES; NANO SCALE; NEEDLE LENGTH; POLARIZED LIGHT; POWER CONCENTRATION; POWER ENHANCEMENT; RESONANT BEHAVIOR; TEST SAMPLES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77953847216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014079     Document Type: Article

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