Enhancement of Extraordinary Optical Transmission in a Double Heterostructure Plasmonic Bandgap Cavity

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 469-476

  Marani, Roberto ^a   Marrocco, Valeria ^a   Grande, Marco ^a   Morea, Giuseppe ^a   D'Orazio, Antonella ^a   Petruzzelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extraordinary optical transmission; Plasmonic bandgap; Sub wavelength slits; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961172568     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9225-4     Document Type: Article

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