Robust determination of the anisotropic polarizability of nanoparticles using coherent confocal microscopy

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2102-2113

  Davis, Brynmor J ^a   Carney, P Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DATA PROCESSING; FOCUSING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ANISOTROPIC POLARIZABILITY; BEAM SHAPERS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONFOCAL IMAGES; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; ELASTIC SCATTERING PROPERTIES; FOCAL PLANES; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POLARIZABILITY; POLARIZABILITY TENSORS; RODLIKE PARTICLES; SINGLE ORIENTATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 52649090195     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002102     Document Type: Article

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