Tunable Yagi-Uda-type plasmonic nanoantennas: Implications for nanoscale optical sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8351, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maksymov, Ivan S ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

low loss plasmonic metamaterials; metallic nanoparticles; nanosensors; subwavelength light enhancement; tunable plasmonic nanoantennas

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMABLE GAS; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; METAL NANORODS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANO SCALE; NANOANTENNAS; OPERATING BANDS; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL SENSING; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TIGHTLY FOCUSED LASER BEAM; TUNABILITIES;

METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SENSORS; PLASMONS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84856904402     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.914221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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