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Infiltration of light inside Au surfaces
CFM • DIPC • DIPC Photonics
As the top atomic monolayer lifts a few Å off the underlying bulk Au (111), ab initio electronic structure calculations show that for gaps >1.5 Å, visible light squeezes inside the empty slot underneath, giving optical field distributions 2 Å thick, less than the atomic diameter. Considerable attention has been paid in the past decades […]