Mode matching in multiresonant plasmonic nanoantennas for enhanced second harmonic generation

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 412-417

  Celebrano, Michele ^a   Wu, Xiaofei ^b,e   Baselli, Milena ^a   Großmann, Swen ^b   Biagioni, Paolo ^a   Locatelli, Andrea ^c   De Angelis, Costantino ^c   Cerullo, Giulio ^a,d   Osellame, Roberto ^a,d   Hecht, Bert ^b   Duò, Lamberto ^a   Ciccacci, Franco ^a   Finazzi, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS;

CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DEGREE OF SYMMETRY; GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES; MOLECULAR SENSING; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION;

NANOANTENNAS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOANTENNA; NANOMATERIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84929264127     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.69     Document Type: Article

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