Efficient apertureless scanning probes using patterned plasmonic surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 25990-25999

  Lee, Youngkyu ^a   Alu, Andrea ^a   Zhang, John X J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ADIABATIC PROPAGATION; APERTURELESS SCANNING; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; KEY DESIGN PARAMETERS; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; OPTIMAL DESIGN PARAMETERS; PYRAMIDAL GEOMETRIES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84555190994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025990     Document Type: Article

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