Tunable Absorption of Light via Localized Plasmon Resonances on a Metal Surface with Interspaced Ultra-thin Metal Gratings

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-89

  Sun, Zhijun ^a   Zuo, Xiaoliu ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Absorption; Resonance; Surface plasmon; Ultra thin metal grating

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953028344     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9172-5     Document Type: Article

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