Huge local field enhancement in perfect plasmonic absorbers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 21888-21895

  Albooyeh, M ^a   Simovski, C R ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BIANISOTROPY; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC MODES; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PLANAR GRIDS; PLASMONIC; POWER ABSORPTION;

PLASMONS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866669528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021888     Document Type: Article

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