An efficient nanolens: Self-similar chain of metal nanospheres

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5512, Issue , 2004, Pages 87-99

  Stockman, Mark I ^a   Li, Kuiru ^a   Li, Xiangting ^b   Bergman, David J ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Applications; Eigenmodes; Enhancement; Hot spot; Local fields; Multipole expansion; Nanofocus; Nanolens; Nanosphere chain; Spaser; Surface enhanced Raman scattering; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DNA; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROTEINS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RAMAN SCATTERING; RNA; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EIGENMODES; HOT SPOT; LOCAL FIELDS; MULTIHOLE EXPANSION; NANOFOCUS; NANOLENS; NANOSPHERE CHAIN; SPASER; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE PLASMONS;

LENSES;

EID: 13244249580     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.555743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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