Role of local fields and defects in the nonlinear response of metal nanostructures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7032, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kauranen, Martti ^a   Husu, Hannu ^a   Kujala, Sami ^a   Canfield, Brian K ^a   Laukkanen, Janne ^b   Bai, Benfeng ^b   Kuittinen, Markku ^b   Turunen, Jari ^b   Kontio, Juha ^a   Viheriälä, Jukka ^a   Niemi, Tapio ^a   Chandler, Eric ^c   Squier, Jeff A ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic generation; Local field effects; Nanoparticles; Polarization

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION; VEGETATION;

CENTROSYMMETRIC; FUNDAMENTAL FIELDS; GAP SIZES; HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPIES; HARMONIC SIGNALS; LOCAL FIELDS; LOCAL-FIELD EFFECTS; LOCALIZED FIELDS; METAL NANO STRUCTURES; MUTUAL ORIENTATIONS; NANO DOTS; NANO GAPS; NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSES; NONCENTROSYMMETRIC; NONTRIVIAL DEPENDENCES; NORMAL INCIDENCES; REFLECTION SYMMETRIES; SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATIONS; STRUCTURAL FEATURES;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 56249103140     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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