Broad-band near-infrared plasmonic nanoantennas for higher harmonic generation

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3537-3544

  Navarro Cia, Miguel ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

broad band; conformal transformation; nanoantenna; plasmonic; third harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DIPOLE RESONANCES; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE INTEGRATION; INCOMING LIGHT; KERR MEDIUM; LIGHTNING RODS; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR INFRARED; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA; PURCELL EFFECT; THIRD HARMONIC; TIME-DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; TRAPEZOIDAL GEOMETRY; VISIBLE SPECTRA; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; CONFORMAL MAPPING; HARMONIC GENERATION; INFRARED DEVICES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PLASMONS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ABSORPTION; INFRARED RAYS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84860377567     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300565x     Document Type: Article

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