Interaction of radially polarized focused light with a prolate spheroidal nanoparticle

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10910-10925

  Şendur, Kürşat ^a   Şahinöz, Ahmet ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

ELONGATED NANOPARTICLES; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; METALLIC LAYERS; NANOPARTICLE GEOMETRIES; NEAR FIELD RADIATION; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PROLATE SPHEROID; RADIALLY POLARIZED;

NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 67649258906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010910     Document Type: Article

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