Optical responses of plasmonic gold nanoantennas through numerical simulation

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yousif, Bedir B ^a   Samra, Ahmed S ^b  

^a Kafr El Sheikh University   (Egypt)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Near field optics; Optical antennas; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; DIGITAL STORAGE; DIMERS; GEOMETRY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INFRARED RADIATION; LEAD METALLOGRAPHY; NANOANTENNAS; NANOSPHERES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; FINITE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

GOLD; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOANTENNA; NANOPARTICLE; NANOSPHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MICROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870359492     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-012-1341-3     Document Type: Article

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