Visualizing the near-field coupling and interference of bonding and anti-bonding modes in infrared dimer nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1270-1280

  Alonso González, Pablo ^a   Albella, Pablo ^b   Golmar, Federico ^a,c   Arzubiaga, Libe ^a   Casanova, Félix ^a,d   Hueso, Luis E ^a,d   Aizpurua, Javier ^b   Hillenbrand, Rainer ^a,d  

^a CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^b CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c INTI CONICET   (Argentina)

^d BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

ANTIBONDING; CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; COHERENT CONTROL; ILLUMINATION GEOMETRY; NANO SCALE; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD COUPLING; RED SHIFT; SCATTERING-TYPE SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (S-SNOM); SINGLE ANTENNA; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84872704738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001270     Document Type: Article

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