Resonant optical excitations in complementary plasmonic nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6968-6973

  Rossouw, David ^a   Botton, Gianluigi A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONIC RESPONSE; RESONANT HARMONICS; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SILVER FILM; SILVER NANOWIRES;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84859396791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006968     Document Type: Article

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