Anisotropy and particle-size effects in nanostructured plasmonic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 22012-22022

  Romero, I ^a,b   De Abajol, F J Garćýa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; FRESNEL REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PARTICLE PLASMON RESONANCE; PARTICLE SIZE EFFECT; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS;

PARTICLE SIZE;

ION; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANISOTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 72449156046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022012     Document Type: Article

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