Electromagnetic energy flow near metal nanoparticles-II: Algorithms for the calculation of the light scattering of multi-spheres and photon energy transport via linear chains of Ag nanoparticles

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 394-401

  Li, Zhipeng ^a   Xu, Hongxing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ag nanoparticles; Mie theory; Multi sphere

Indexed keywords

MATRIX INVERSION APPROACHES; MIE THEORY; PHOTON ENERGY TRANSPORT; RECURSIVE ORDER-OF-SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; SILVER;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIE THEORY; SILVER;

EID: 33750024269     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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