Surface plasmon effects excited by the dielectric hole in a silver-shell nanospherical pair

Plasmonics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 253-259

  Chau, Yuan Fong ^a  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Silver shell nanospherical pair; Surface plasmon effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949773359     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-009-9100-8     Document Type: Article

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