High sensitivity and large field enhancement of symmetry broken Au nanorings: Effect of multipolar plasmon resonance and propagation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2906-2917

  Liu, S D ^a   Zhang, Z S ^a   Wang, Q Q ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANORINGS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AU NANORING; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LARGE LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENTS; LOCAL FIELDS; OPTICAL RINGS; PLASMON RESONANCES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 60549091189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002906     Document Type: Article

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