Design considerations for near-field enhancement in optical antennas

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Fernández García, Roberto ^a   Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a   Fernández Domínguez, Antonio I ^a   Giannini, Vincenzo ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross section; field enhancement; localised surface plasmon resonances; nanoantennas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895108939     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2013.850788     Document Type: Review

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