Role of near-field enhancement in plasmonic laser nanoablation using gold nanorods on a silicon substrate: comment

Opt Express. 2011 Mar 28;19(7):6177-8; discussion 6179-81. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.006177.

Abstract

In this comment, we argue that the conlusion made by Harrisson and Ben-Yakar [Opt. Express 18, 22556 (2010)], which states that nanoablation with plasmonic nanorods depends on the enhancement of the Poynting vector rather than the one of the square of the electric field, is incorrect and not necessarily needed to explain their experimental results.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Gold / chemistry*
  • Lasers
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
  • Nanotechnology / methods*
  • Nanotubes / chemistry
  • Normal Distribution
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Radiation
  • Silicon / chemistry*
  • Silicon Dioxide / chemistry*
  • Surface Properties

Substances

  • Gold
  • Silicon Dioxide
  • Silicon