Gold nanoantenna resonance diagnostics via transversal particle plasmon luminescence

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3686-3693

  Wissert, Matthias D ^a   Moosmann, Carola ^a   Ilin, Konstantin S ^a   Siegel, Michael ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Eisler, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GOLD; PHOTONS; PLASMONS;

CROSS-POLARIZED; EXCITATION CHANNELS; EXCITATION LIGHT; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FAR-FIELD; LONG AXIS; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; LUMINESCENCE SIGNALS; LUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; NANOANTENNAS; PARTICLE PLASMONS; PLASMONIC; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 79951639973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003686     Document Type: Article

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