Scattering reduction at near-infrared frequencies using plasmonic nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1041-1056

  Tamma, Venkata Ananth ^a   Cui, Yonghao ^a   Park, Wounjhang ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; METAMATERIALS; NANORODS; NANOWIRES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; SILICON; WAVES; WET ETCHING;

1550 NM; ANALYSIS APPROACH; DRY AND WET; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; GOLD NANOWIRE; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL STANDING WAVE; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SPATIAL CURVATURE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

SCATTERING;

EID: 84872704353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001041     Document Type: Article

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