Surface plasmon-enhanced terahertz emission from a hemicyanine self-assembled monolayer

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4067-4073

  Ramakrishnan, Gopakumar ^a   Kumar, Nishant ^a   Planken, Paul C M ^a   Tanaka, Daisuke ^b   Kajikawa, Kotaro ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

ALKANETHIOLS; GOLD FILM; GOLD SURFACES; HEMICYANINE; KRETSCHMANN GEOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84857284327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004067     Document Type: Article

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