Surface plasmon resonance in a hexagonal nanostructure formed by seven core shell nanocylinders

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 920-926

  Sung, Ming Je ^a   Ma, Yao Feng ^a   Chau, Yuan Fong ^b   Huang, Ding Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; DIELECTRIC CORE; INCIDENT ANGLES; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NANOCYLINDERS; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON FIELDS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 76749155559     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000920     Document Type: Article

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