Plasmon Nanofocusing with Negative Refraction in a High-Index Dielectric Wedge

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 175-184

  Gramotnev, Dmitri K ^a   Tan, Shiaw J ^b   Kurth, Martin L ^c  

^a Nanophotonics Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Field enhancement; Nanofocusing; Negative refraction; Plasmonic caustics; Subwavelength localization; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895063237     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9610-2     Document Type: Article

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