Light transmission through nanostructured metallic films: Coupling between surface waves and localized resonances

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2626-2633

  Lin, L ^a   Roberts, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE WAVES;

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DIFFRACTED LIGHT; FANO PROFILE; FANO RESONANCES; HIGH TRANSMISSION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANOMETRICS; NANOSTRUCTURED METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; SPECTRAL PROFILE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THIN METALLIC FILMS; TRANSMISSION MAXIMA; WOOD'S ANOMALIES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79851498077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002626     Document Type: Article

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