Are volume plasmons excitable by classical light?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Höflich, Katja ^a   Gösele, Ulrich ^a   Christiansen, Silke ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; EIGEN MODES; EXTINCTION SPECTRA; GOLD SHELL; LOCAL MAXIMUM; METALLIC NANOSHELLS; NATURE OF LIGHT; PHYSICAL PICTURES; PLASMA FREQUENCIES; REAL PART; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; VOLUME PLASMON;

ELECTRON GAS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMA WAVES; SILVER;

PLASMONS;

EID: 70349534375     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.087404     Document Type: Article

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