Radiation engineering of optical antennas for maximum field enhancement

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2606-2610

  Seok, Tae Joon ^a   Jamshidi, Arash ^a   Kim, Myungki ^a   Dhuey, Scott ^b   Lakhani, Amit ^a   Choo, Hyuck ^a,b   Schuck, Peter James ^b   Cabrini, Stefano ^b   Schwartzberg, Adam M ^b   Bokor, Jeffrey ^a,b   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a   Wu, Ming C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ground plane; impedance matching; nano optics; optical antenna; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

GROUND PLANES; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; NANOOPTICS; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PLASMONICS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA RADIATION; MAGNETIC STORAGE; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ANTENNAS;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79960256091     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2010862     Document Type: Article

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