Increased light gathering capacity of sub-wavelength conical metallic apertures

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Diwekar, Mohit ^a   Blair, Steve ^a   Davis, Mark ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b MOXTEK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

extraordinary transmission; fluorescence enhancement; microarray; photonics; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

MICROARRAYS; PHOTONICS; RED SHIFT; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE WAVES;

BIOMOLECULE DETECTION; CONICAL APERTURES; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT; METALLIC APERTURES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; SUBSTRATE INTERFACE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80455178668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3357301     Document Type: Article

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