Subwavelength-sized plasmonic structures for high-resolution optical imaging

• Main Author: Wang, Qian
• Other Authors: Yuan Xiaocong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/49497
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Optics does not naturally suit the nanometer world because the optical length scale is on the order of several hundred nanometers due to diffraction limit. However, exploiting the hybrid nature of surface plasmons (SPs) offers a way to hurdle this diffraction limit and thus enable a route to subwave...