Hybrid Au-Ag subwavelength metallic structures with variant periods for superfocusing

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Fu, Yongqi ^a,b   Zhou, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hybrid Au Ag; superfocusing; variant periods

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; SILVER ALLOYS; THIN FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CALCULATION RESULTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE AND TIME DOMAINS; FOCUSING PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SUPERFOCUSING; TRANSMISSION INTENSITY; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; VARIANT PERIODS;

GOLD ALLOYS;

EID: 80455145161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3159299     Document Type: Article

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