Plasmonic nanoclusters: A path towards negative-index metafluids

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14129-14145

  Urzhumov, Yaroslav A ^a   Shvets, Gennady ^a   Fan, Jonathan ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Brandl, Daniel ^c   Nordlander, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NANOPARTICLES;

ARTIFICIAL PLASMONIC MOLECULES (APM); LIQUID METAMATERIALS; PLASMONIC NANOCLUSTERS; VECTORIAL FINITE ELEMENT FREQUENCY DOMAIN (FEFD);

NANOCLUSTERS;

EID: 35348987655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014129     Document Type: Article

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