Optical wave properties of nano-particle chains coupled with a metal surface

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 11827-11842

  Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a   Lu, Meng ^b   Michielssen, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NANOPARTICLES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FREQUENCY WAVENUMBER SPECTRA; NANO-PARTICLE CHAINS; OPTICAL WAVE PROPERTIES; POLARITONS; RADIATION LOSSES;

PARTICLE OPTICS;

EID: 34648813987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011827     Document Type: Article

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