Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Optical or pre-photocell system
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-20
2008-08-26
Epps, Georgia Y. (Department: 2878)
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Optical or pre-photocell system
C385S129000, C385S131000, C359S360000, C359S585000, C359S589000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07417219
ABSTRACT:
Using a realistic plasmonic model, an optically thick electrically conductive film with subwavelength hole or holes therein is shown to always support propagating modes near the surface plasmon frequency, where cross-sectional dimensions of the hole or holes are less than about λ/2nh, λ being the wavelength of the light and nhthe refractive index of the dielectric material in the hole or holes. This is the case even when material losses are taken into account. Based on the dispersion analysis, in both a single hole or hole array designs, propagating modes play a dominant role in the transport properties of incident light. These structures exhibit a new region of operation, while featuring a high packing density and diffraction-less behavior. These structures can be used in near-field scanning optical microscopy, in collection and emission modes, for writing data to an optical storage device, as wavelength-selective optical filters, for multispectral imaging of a sample, as photolithography masks for transferring an image to a photoresist-coated substrate, as light emitters, light collectors and light modulators.
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Catrysse Peter B.
Fan Shanhui
Shin Hocheol
Davis , Wright, Tremaine, LLP
Epps Georgia Y.
Legasse Jr. Francis M
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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