Plasmonic black gold by adiabatic nanofocusing and absorption of light in ultra-sharp convex grooves

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Søndergaard, Thomas ^a   Novikov, Sergey M ^b   Holmgaard, Tobias ^a   Eriksen, René L ^b   Beermann, Jonas ^b   Han, Zhanghua ^b   Pedersen, Kjeld ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOARRAY; POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS;

EID: 84864863660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1976     Document Type: Article

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