Demonstration of scattering suppression in retardation-based plasmonic nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14802-14811

  Nielsen, Michael G ^a   Pors, Anders ^b   Nielsen, Rasmus B ^c   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^c,d   Albrektsen, Ole ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NANORODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NANOANTENNA ARRAYS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SCATTERING STRENGTH; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

NANOANTENNAS;

EID: 78449284351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014802     Document Type: Article

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