Launching plasmonic Bloch waves with excited dye molecules

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 47, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Y K ^a   Zhang, D G ^a   Wang, X X ^a   Liu, C ^a   Wang, P ^a   Ming, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTIONS; BLOCH WAVES; DYE MOLECULE; FAR-FIELD; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; GRATING PERIODS; LEAKAGE RADIATION; OPTICAL BEHAVIOR; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; PLASMONIC; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; WAVE VECTOR;

ENERGY CONVERSION; PLASMONS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84868089342     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/47/475202     Document Type: Article

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