Absorption enhancement by matching the cross-section of plasmonic nanowires to the field structure of tightly focused beams

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8506-8513

  Normatov, Alexander ^a   Spektor, Boris ^a   Leviatan, Yehuda ^a   Shamir, Joseph ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; PLASMONS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; BEAM-WAIST; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; FIELD STRUCTURES; FOCUSED BEAMS; INCIDENT BEAMS; INCIDENT FIELDS; LINE SINGULARITY; PHYSICAL CRITERIONS; PLANE WAVE; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONIC; SILVER NANOWIRES; TOTAL POWER;

NANOWIRES;

NANOTUBE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHTING; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79955442356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008506     Document Type: Article

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