Longitudinal and transverse coupling in infrared gold nanoantenna arrays: Long range versus short range interaction regimes

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15047-15061

  Weber, Daniel ^a   Albella, Pablo ^b   Alonso González, Pablo ^c   Neubrech, Frank ^a   Gui, Han ^d   Nagao, Tadaaki ^d   Hillenbrand, Rainer ^c,e   Aizpurua, Javier ^b   Pucci, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROMETERS; NANORODS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

AMPLITUDE MAPS; FAR-FIELD; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE; GOLD NANOROD; LONG RANGE; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR FIELD INTERACTIONS; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; OPTICAL EXTINCTION; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PLASMONIC; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SHORT RANGE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE-ENHANCED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSVERSE COUPLING; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS;

SILICON WAFERS;

GOLD; METAL; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RADIO WAVES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79961059568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015047     Document Type: Article

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