Direct imaging of nanogap-mode plasmon-resonant fields

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7726-7733

  Tanaka, Yoshito ^a   Ishiguro, Hiroyasu ^a   Fujiwara, Hideki ^a,b   Yokota, Yukie ^a   Ueno, Kosei ^a,b   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; NANOPHOTONICS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; DIRECT IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FIELD IMAGING; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NANO-GAP; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; OPTICAL SPOTS; PLASMONIC DEVICES; RESONANT FIELDS; SHARP TIP; SILICON TIPS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79953843410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007726     Document Type: Article

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