Giant optical transmission of subwavelength apertures for NSOM and data storage

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 293-298

  Pellerin, K M ^a   Lezec, H J ^b   Ebbesen, T W ^b   Linke, R A ^a   Thio, Tineke ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

DATA STORAGE; HIGH DENSITY DATA STORAGE; INCIDENT LIGHT; METAL SURFACES; PERIODIC CORRUGATION; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84910123819     PISSN: 19449399     EISSN: 19449380     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2001.966436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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