Effect of surface roughness on self-assembled monolayer plasmonic ruler in nonlocal regime

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 9604-9610

  Hajisalem, Ghazal ^a   Min, Qiao ^a   Gelfand, Ryan ^a   Gordon, Reuven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; RESONANCE; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AS-DEPOSITED FILMS; AU NANOPARTICLE; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NON-LOCAL EFFECT; PLANARIZATION; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; RESONANCE SHIFT; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84898987991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.009604     Document Type: Article

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