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Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 40249, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/40249
Review Article

Resonant Excitation of Terahertz Surface Plasmons in Subwavelength Metal Holes

Weili Zhang,1 Abul K. Azad,1,2 and Jiaguang Han1,3

1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078-5032, OK, USA
2MPA-CINT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P. O. Box 1663, MS K771, Los Alamos 87545, NM, USA
3Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, 117542, Singapore

Received 27 September 2007; Accepted 12 October 2007

Academic Editor: Yalin Lu

Copyright © 2007 Weili Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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