Excitation of propagating surface plasmons with a scanning tunnelling microscope

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Wang, T ^a   Boer Duchemin, E ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Comtet, G ^a   Dujardin, G ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED PLASMON; DETECTED PHOTONS; ENHANCED EMISSION; FOURIER PLANES; GOLD FILM; LEAKAGE RADIATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; PHOTON EMISSIONS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPES; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN GOLD FILM;

METALLIC FILMS; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; SILVER;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79952904986     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/17/175201     Document Type: Article

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