Tailoring and imaging the plasmonic local density of states in crystalline nanoprisms

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 426-432

  Viarbitskaya, Sviatlana ^a   Teulle, Alexandre ^a   Marty, Renaud ^a   Sharma, Jadab ^a   Girard, Christian ^a   Arbouet, Arnaud ^a   Dujardin, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; GAUSSIAN LIGHT BEAMS; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; PLASMONIC RESONATORS; SPATIAL PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TWO-PHOTON LUMINESCENCE;

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84876670784     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3581     Document Type: Article

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