Controlling surface plasmon of several pair arrays of silver-shell nanocylinders

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1163-1169

  Chau, Yuan Fong ^a   Yeh, Han Hsuan ^a   Liao, Chiung Chou ^a   Ho, Hong Fa ^b   Liu, Chi Yu ^a   Tsai, Din Ping ^c  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILVER;

BLUE-SHIFTED; INCIDENT LIGHT; NANOCYLINDERS; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; PEAK WAVELENGTH; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMON EFFECTS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 77749246533     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001163     Document Type: Article

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