A stretch-tunable plasmonic structure with a polarization-dependent response

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5237-5242

  Zhu, Xiaolong ^a,b   Xiao, Sanshui ^a   Shi, Lei ^b   Liu, Xiaohan ^b   Zi, Jian ^b   Hansen, Ole ^a   Mortensen, N Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLAYERS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIELECTRIC CORE; LATTICE SYMMETRY; MONOLAYER ARRAYS; PDMS SUBSTRATE; PLASMONIC; RESONANCE FREQUENCY SHIFT; TELECOMMUNICATION BANDS; TM POLARIZATION; UNIAXIAL STRETCHING;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84857519052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005237     Document Type: Article

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