Local-field confinement in three-pair arrays of metallic nanocylinders

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4504-4513

  Ng, Ming Yaw ^a   Liu, Wei Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RESONANCE; SILVER;

METALLIC NANOCYLINDERS; NANO-SCALE REGION; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33646584169     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004504     Document Type: Article

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