Full analytical model for obtaining surface plasmon resonance modes of metal nanoparticle structures embedded in layered media

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1722-1733

  Simsek, Ergun ^a  

^a BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LAYERED MEDIA; LAYERED MEDIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MULTI-LAYERED; POLARIZABILITIES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SURFACE PLASMON PROPAGATION; SURFACE PLASMONS; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

SILVER;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 75249104602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001722     Document Type: Article

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