Evanescent wave scattering and local electric field enhancement at ellipsoidal silver particles in the vicinity of a glass surface

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

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1362-1367

  Renger, Jan ^a   Grafström, Stefan ^a   Eng, Lukas M ^a   Deckert, Volker ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN ISAS E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL GLASS; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; EVANESCENT FIELD; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRUM RESPONSE;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 3142725517     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.001362     Document Type: Article

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