A new closed-form solution to light scattering by spherical nanoshells

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 617-626

  Li, Joshua Le Wei ^a   Li, Zhong Cheng ^a   She, Hao Yuan ^b   Zouhdi, Saïd ^c,d   Mosig, Juan R ^e   Martin, Olivier J F ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c SUPELEC   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Closed form; Light scattering; Mie theory; Nanoshells

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CLOSED-FORM; HALF WAVELENGTH; MEDIUM SIZE; MIE SCATTERING; MIE THEORY; NANOANTENNAS; NANOSHELLS; NEAR-FIELD; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SMALL SIZE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTION; SPHERES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SCATTERING;

EID: 70349437150     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2009.2021696     Document Type: Article

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