Plasmon scattering from holes: From single hole scattering to Young's experiment

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Wang, T ^a   Boer Duchemin, E ^a   Comtet, G ^a   Le Moal, E ^a   Dujardin, G ^a   Drezet, A ^b   Huant, S ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

coherence; interference diffraction; scanning tunnelling microscopy; scattering; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

FOURIER PLANES; HORIZONTAL DIPOLES; PLASMON SCATTERING; PLASMON WAVES; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EXPERIMENTS; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 84896853721     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/12/125202     Document Type: Article

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