Coupled T-Shaped Optical Antennas with Two Resonances Localized in a Common Nanogap

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1644-1651

  Dopf, Katja ^a   Moosmann, Carola ^a   Kettlitz, Siegfried W ^a   Schwab, Patrick M ^a,b   Ilin, Konstantin ^a   Siegel, Michael ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a,b   Eisler, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark field spectroscopy; FDTD simulations; Nanoantenna; particle plasmon resonance; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOANTENNAS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION;

DARK-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; FDTD SIMULATIONS; NANO-ANTENNA STRUCTURES; PARTICLE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION RESPONSE; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; RESONANT OPTICAL ANTENNAS;

RESONANCE;

EID: 84947786349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00446     Document Type: Article

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