Optical scattering resonances of single and coupled dimer plasmonic nanoantennas

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17736-17746

  Muskens, O L ^a   Giannini, V ^b   Sanchez Gil J A ^b   Gomez Rivas J ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; NANORODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIMER ANTENNAS; ELECTRODYNAMIC MODEL; HALF-WAVE ANTENNA; INTERPARTICLE GAP;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 37549051809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017736     Document Type: Article

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