Vibrational near-field mapping of planar and buried three-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dregely, Daniel ^a   Neubrech, Frank ^a,b   Duan, Huigao ^c   Vogelgesang, Ralf ^d   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ANTENNA; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACCURACY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION UNLIMITED FAR FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; DIPOLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR PROBE; OSCILLATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84881124550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3237     Document Type: Article

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