Subwavelength hole arrays with nanoapertures fabricated by scanning probe nanolithography
Author(s) -
Zoran Jakšić,
Milan Maksimović,
Dana Vasiljević-Radović,
Milija Sarajlić
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
science of sintering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1820-7413
pISSN - 0350-820X
DOI - 10.2298/sos0602117j
Subject(s) - materials science , nanolithography , fabrication , photoresist , substrate (aquarium) , nanometre , optoelectronics , plasmon , nanotechnology , surface plasmon , optics , layer (electronics) , physics , medicine , oceanography , alternative medicine , pathology , geology , composite material
Owing to their surface plasmon-based operation, arrays of subwavelength holes show extraordinary electromagnetic transmission and intense field localizations of several orders of magnitude. Thus they were proposed as the basic building blocks for a number of applications utilizing the enhancement of nonlinear optical effects. We designed and simulated nanometer-sized subwavelength holes using an analytical approach. In our experiments we used the scanning probe method for nanolithographic fabrication of subwavelength hole arrays in silver layers sputtered on a positive photoresist substrate. We fabricated ordered nanohole patterns with different shapes, dispositions and proportions. The smallest width was about 60 nm. We characterized the fabricated samples by atomic force microscopy
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