Near- and far-field properties of plasmonic oligomers under radially and azimuthally polarized light excitation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4969-4974

  Yanai, Avner ^a   Grajower, Meir ^a   Lerman, Gilad M ^a   Hentschel, Mario ^b,c   Giessen, Harald ^b   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

near field scanning optical microscopy; oligomers; plasmons; radial and azimuthal polarization

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OLIGOMERS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE;

AZIMUTHAL POLARIZATION; FAR-FIELD PROPERTIES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; PLASMONIC OLIGOMERS; POLARIZED EXCITATION; UNCONVENTIONAL POLARIZATION STATE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84901649641     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501031t     Document Type: Article

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