Tuning the extraordinary transmission in a metallic/dielectric CDC hole array by changing the temperature

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15553-15559

  Wang, Wei ^a   Lu, Yalin ^b   Knize, R J ^b   Reinhardt, Kitt ^c   Chen, Shaochen ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^c AFOSRZNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CHANGING TEMPERATURE; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; HOLE ARRAYS; HOLE SIZE; METALLIC LAYERS; NEW APPROACHES; NEW DESIGN; STRONTIUM TITANATE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; THIN LAYERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THROUGH HOLE; THZ FREQUENCIES; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION PEAKS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77954934020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015553     Document Type: Article

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