Plasmonic near-field probes: A comparison of the campanile geometry with other sharp tips

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8166-8176

  Bao, Wei ^a,b   Staffaroni, Matteo ^c   Bokor, Jeffrey ^a,c   Salmeron, Miquel B ^a,b   Yablonovitch, Eli ^c   Cabrini, Stefano ^a   Weber Bargioni, Alexander ^a   Schuck, P James ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS;

BIDIRECTIONAL COUPLING; BROADBAND FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODES; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; NANO-OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; NEAR FIELD PROBES; PROBE STRUCTURES;

PROBES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

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

EID: 84875994141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008166     Document Type: Article

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