Plasmonics of 3-D nanoshell dimers using multipole expansion and finite element method

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2776-2788

  Khoury, Christopher G ^a   Norton, Stephen J ^a   Vodinh, Tuan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimer; Finite element method; Gold; Multipole expansion; Nanoshell; Plasmonics; Silver; Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

E-FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETICS; GOLD AND SILVER; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; MULTIPOLE EXPANSION; MULTIPOLE EXPANSIONS; NANO SCALE; NANOSHELL; NANOSHELLS; PLASMON BAND; PLASMON PEAKS; PLASMONICS; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; REDSHIFTING; SHELL THICKNESS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIZE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SURFACE SCATTERING; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); THIN SHELLS;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; DIMERS; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCATTERING; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILVER; SUBSTRATES; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70349542898     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900664j     Document Type: Article

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