Coupling-induced excitation of a forbidden surface plasmon mode of a gold nanorod

Science in China, Series G: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1129-1138

  Yao, Haomin ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupling; Gold nanoparticles; Localized surface plasmon resonance; Near field optical microscopy; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

BROKEN SYMMETRY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOROD; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; SYMMETRY BREAKING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 68149126834     PISSN: 16721799     EISSN: 18622844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-009-0171-5     Document Type: Article

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