Plasmonic excitations in metallic nanoparticles: Resonances, dispersion characteristics and near-field patterns

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8447-8460

  Tatartschuk, Eugen ^a   Shamonina, Ekaterina ^a   Solymar, Laszlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PLASMONS;

DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; DISPERSION RELATIONSHIP; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEAR FIELD PATTERNS; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 66449108528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008447     Document Type: Article

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