Multi-wavelength mid-infrared plasmonic antennas with single nanoscale focal point

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 22113-22124

  Blanchard, Romain ^a   Boriskina, Svetlana V ^b   Genevet, Patrice ^a,c   Kats, Mikhail A ^a   Tetienne, Jean Philippe ^a   Yu, Nanfang ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^c   Negro, Luca Dal ^d   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOSENSING; BOW TIE; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; FAR FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOCAL POINTS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MIDINFRARED; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NANO SCALE; NANO-IMAGING; NANOANTENNAS; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; NEAR FIELD PROBES; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; PARTICLE ARRAYS; PHOTONIC MODES; PLASMONIC; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

ANTENNAS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RAYS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80054942064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022113     Document Type: Article

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