Multiple multipole method with automatic multipole setting applied to the simulation of surface plasmons in metallic nanostructures

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 101-111

  Moreno, Esteban ^a,b   Erni, Daniel ^a   Hafner, Christian ^a   Vahldieck, Rüdiger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BASIS FUNCTIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0000249123     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.000101     Document Type: Article

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