Extraordinary light transmission through opaque thin metal film with subwavelength holes blocked by metal disks

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 21098-21108

  Li, Wen Di ^a   Hu, Jonathan ^a   Chou, Stephen Y ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLIC FILMS; METALS; TRANSPARENCY;

COUPLING STRENGTHS; EXTRAORDINARY LIGHT TRANSMISSION; FREE SPACE; HOLE ARRAYS; LIGHT COUPLINGS; METAL DISK; METAL FILM; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SUB-WAVELENGTH HOLES; THIN METAL FILMS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80053969744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021098     Document Type: Article

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