Optical near-field excitations on plasmonic nanoparticle-based structures

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4253-4267

  Foteinopoulou, S ^a   Vigneron, J P ^a   Vandenbem, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; SILVER; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ISOLATED SPHERES; NEAR-FIELD-INTENSITY; POLARIZATION CONTROL; QUADRUMER STRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION;

EID: 34147117167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004253     Document Type: Article

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