Spectral tuning of IR-resonant nanoantennas by nanogap engineering

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1301-1306

  Weber, Daniel ^a   Katzmann, Julia ^b   Neubrech, Frank ^a   Härtling, Thomas ^b   Pucci, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RESONANCE; ANTENNA SEPARATION; GAP SIZE; METAL DEPOSITION; NANO-GAP; NANOANTENNAS; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONIC COUPLING; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; RED SHIFT; SPECTRAL REGION; SPECTRAL TUNING; NANOANTENNA ARRAYS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITION; LEAD METALLOGRAPHY; NANOANTENNAS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; RED SHIFT; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SUBSTRATES; TUNING;

ANTENNAS; SCANNING ANTENNAS;

EID: 84862127930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.001301     Document Type: Article

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