Studies of plasmonic hot-spot translation by a metal-dielectric layered superlens

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8093, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Thoreson, Mark D ^a,b   Nielsen, Rasmus B ^c   West, Paul R ^a   Kriesch, Arian ^b,d   Liu, Zhengtong ^e   Fang, Jieran ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Peschel, Ulf ^b,d   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a,b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

canalization; finite difference time domain simulations; near field scanning optical microscopy; silicon dioxide; silver; superlens

Indexed keywords

CANALIZATION; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HOT SPOT; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR-FIELD; PLASMONIC; SUPERLENS DESIGN; SUPERLENSES; SUPERLENSING; VISIBLE RANGE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; SILICA; SILVER;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 80053892519     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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