Optical energy optimization at the nanoscale by near-field interference

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Koene, Benny ^a   Savoini, Matteo ^a   Kimel, Alexey V ^a   Kirilyuk, Andrei ^a   Rasing, Theo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC COVER; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; FOCAL SPOT; NANO SCALE; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL ENERGY; OPTICAL ENERGY TRANSFER; PLASMONIC; RECORDING MEDIA; SUB-DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84863685670     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4733292     Document Type: Article

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