Experimental measurement of the dispersion relations of the surface plasmon modes of metal nanoparticle chains

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17482-17493

  Crozier, K B ^a   Togan, E ^a   Simsek, E ^a   Yang, T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; DISPERSIONS; NANOPARTICLES;

DYNAMIC DEPOLARIZATION; RADIATIVE DAMPING; RETARDATION; TRANSVERSE MODE;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 37549017389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017482     Document Type: Article

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