Active coated nano-particle excited by an arbitrarily located electric Hertzian dipole-resonance and transparency effects

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Arslanagić, Samel ^a   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloaking; Gain; Metamaterials; Nanolasers; Plasmonics; Scattering

Indexed keywords

HERTZIAN DIPOLE; INTRINSIC LOSS; NANOLASERS; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; PLASMONICS; RADIATING STATE; RADIATION RESISTANCE; CLOAKING; GAIN;

COATED MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; PLASMONICS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SCATTERING;

RADIATION EFFECTS; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 75849126485     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/12/2/024014     Document Type: Article

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