Coherent control of plasmonic nanoantennas using optical eigenmodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kosmeier, Sebastian ^a   De Luca, Anna Chiara ^a,b   Zolotovskaya, Svetlana ^a   Di Falco, Andrea ^a   Dholakia, Kishan ^a   Mazilu, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GENETIC PROCEDURES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84877764147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01808     Document Type: Article

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