Inhomogeneous Surface Plasmon Polaritons

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 739-745

  Foley, Jonathan J ^a   McMahon, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Schatz, George C ^b   Harutyunyan, Hayk ^a   Wiederrecht, Gary P ^a   Gray, Stephen K ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion engineering; Inhomogeneous waves; Near field optics; Plasmonics; Refraction; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; METALS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS WAVES; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PHONON-POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 84924428711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500172f     Document Type: Article

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