Plasmonic black metals by broadband light absorption in ultra-sharp convex grooves

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Beermann, Jonas ^a   Eriksen, René L ^a   Søndergaard, Thomas ^b   Holmgaard, Tobias ^b   Pedersen, Kjeld ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC NANOFOCUSING; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; GAP SURFACE PLASMONS; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS; TWO-PHOTON PHOTOLUMINESCENCES;

LIGHT ABSORPTION; NICKEL; PLASMONS; REFLECTION; WAVELENGTH;

GOLD;

EID: 84880442292     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/7/073007     Document Type: Article

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