Enhancement of second harmonic signal in nanofabricated cones

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6048-6054

  Dutto, F ^a   Heiss, M ^a   Lovera, A ^a   Lopez Sanchez O ^a   Fontcuberta I Morral, A ^a   Radenovic, A ^a  

^a Bioengineering Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

enhancement; lithium niobate; nanocones; plasmons; Second harmonic generation; single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

ILLUMINATION VOLUMES; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NANO-CONES; OMNIDIRECTIONAL MIRRORS; OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION;

GOLD DEPOSITS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

GOLD; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NANOMATERIAL; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84890317023     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403279y     Document Type: Article

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