Far-field optical imaging of a linear array of coupled gold nanocubes: direct visualization of dark plasmon propagating modes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 8223-8229

  Chen, Hung Ying ^a   He, Chieh Lun ^a   Wang, Chun Yuan ^a   Lin, Meng Hsien ^a   Mitsui, Daisuke ^b   Eguchi, Miharu ^b   Teranishi, Toshiharu ^c,d   Gwo, Shangjr ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dark plasmon mode; gold nanocube; nanoantenna array; plasmon coupling

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; COLLOIDAL GOLD; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; FAR-FIELD; FAR-FIELD RADIATION; LIGHT LOCALIZATION; LINEAR ARRAYS; NANOANTENNAS; NANOCUBES; NANOMANIPULATIONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMON DISPERSION; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC; PROPAGATING MODE; TWO SECTION;

GOLD; NANOFILTRATION; VISUALIZATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 80054979884     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2029007     Document Type: Article

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