Robust and Versatile Light Absorption at Near-Infrared Wavelengths by Plasmonic Aluminum Nanorods

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 538-546

  Lecarme, Olivier ^a   Sun, Quan ^a   Ueno, Kosei ^a   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aluminum; interband transition; near field enhancement; near infrared; photoemission electron microscopy; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE;

INTER-BAND TRANSITION; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PLASMONICS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84907873876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500096q     Document Type: Article

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