Near-Field Optical Imaging of a Porous Au Film: Influences of Topographic Artifacts and Surface Plasmons

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 377-383

  Lin, Yu Hsuan ^a,b   Händel, Benjamin ^a   Huang, Hung Ji ^a   Chen, Hsiang An ^c   Chen, Yung Fu ^b   Lin, Heh Nan ^c   Tsai, Din Ping ^a,d,e  

^a INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Near field scanning optical microscopy; Porous gold film; Surface plasmon; Topographic artifact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877610572     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9401-1     Document Type: Article

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