Field enhancement of gold optical nanoantennas mounted on a dielectric waveguide

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 315-319

  Ewe, W B ^a   Chu, H S ^a   Li, E P ^a   Luk'Yanchuk, B S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LOCALIZED FIELD; NANOANTENNAS; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; SLAB WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79961042335     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-010-5858-y     Document Type: Article

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