Unraveling near-field origin of electromagnetic waves scattered from silver nanorod arrays using pseudo-spectral time-domain calculation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14211-14228

  Lin, Bang Yan ^a   Hsu, Hui Chen ^b   Teng, Chun Hao ^c   Chang, Hung Chun ^a   Wang, Juen Kai ^a,b   Wang, Yuh Lin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NANORODS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANODIC ALUMINUM OXIDE; EFFICIENT SURFACE; ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; FAR-FIELD SCATTERING; PSEUDOSPECTRAL TIME DOMAIN; SILVER NANOROD ARRAYS; SURFACE MAGNETIC FIELD; TIME-DOMAIN CALCULATIONS;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

NANOTUBE; SILVER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68449100166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014211     Document Type: Article

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