Scattering of light into silicon by spherical and hemispherical silver nanoparticles

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-78

  Centeno, Anthony ^a   Breeze, Jonathan ^a   Ahmed, Badar ^b   Reehal, Hari ^b   Alford, Neil ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT AREAS; NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES; OXIDE BUFFER LAYERS; SEMI-INFINITE SILICON SUBSTRATES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TOP SURFACE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; UPPER SURFACE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; PRECIOUS METALS; SILVER; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 76149131730     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000076     Document Type: Article

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