Checkerboard Nanoplasmonic Gold Structure for Long-Wave Infrared Absorption Enhancement

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Awad, Ehab ^a   Abdel Rahman, Mohamed ^b   Fakhar Zia, Muhammad ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

long wave infrared absorption; Nanophotonics; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; INFRARED ABSORPTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPHOTONICS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; SILICON NITRIDE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; LONG WAVE INFRARED; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84937420508     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2345879     Document Type: Article

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