Mapping magnetic near-field distributions of plasmonic nanoantennas

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3168-3176

  Denkova, Denitza ^a   Verellen, Niels ^a,b   Silhanek, Alejandro V ^a,c   Valev, Ventsislav K ^a,c   Dorpe, Pol Van ^a,b   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

hollow pyramid probe; near field imaging; optical magnetic field; optical nanobar antenna; probe sample coupling; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

APERTURE PROBES; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; PROBES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANTENNAS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84876526015     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305589t     Document Type: Article

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