Plasmonic properties of gold ring-disk nano-resonators: Fine shape details matter

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5587-5595

  Large, Nicolas ^a,b   Aizpurua, Javier ^b   Lin, Vivian Kaixin ^c   Teo, Siew Lang ^c   Marty, Renaud ^a   Tripathy, Sudhiranjan ^c   Mlayah, Adnen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ATOMIC FORCE; CHEMICAL SENSING; FLAT SURFACES; GOLD RINGS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANORESONATORS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; SHARP EDGES; SPECTRAL SHIFT; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79952612731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005587     Document Type: Article

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