Compact magnetic antennas for directional excitation of surface plasmons

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4853-4858

  Liu, Yongmin ^a   Palomba, Stefano ^a   Park, Yongshik ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,b   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

metamaterials; nanoantennas; Plasmonics; resonators

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; DETUNED; ELECTRIC-FIELD-POLARIZATION; NANO-METER REGIMES; NANOANTENNAS; NANORESONATORS; NEAR-FIELD; NONLINEAR APPLICATIONS; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; REGION OF INTEREST; RELATIVE PHASE; SCALE DOWN; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; ULTRA-FAST; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; RESONATORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866340458     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302339z     Document Type: Article

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