Sub-wavelength energy concentration with electrically generated mid-infrared surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 13738-13747

  Bousseksou, A ^a   Babuty, A ^b   Tetienne, J P ^a   Moldovan Doyen, I ^b   Braive, R ^a   Beaudoin, G ^a   Sagnes, I ^a   De Wilde, Y ^b   Colombelli, R ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INFRARED DEVICES; METAL RECOVERY; PLASMONS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; ENERGY CONCENTRATION; ENERGY VOLUME; METALLIC SURFACE; MID-INFRARED RANGE; MIDINFRARED; NEAR-FIELD; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE-PLASMON;

WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863765789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013738     Document Type: Article

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