Plasmonic modes of metallic semishells in a polymer film

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1457-1464

  Ye, Jian ^a,b   Verellen, Niels ^a,b   Van Roy, Willem ^a   Lagae, Liesbet ^a,b   Maes, Guido ^b   Borghs, Gustaaf ^a,b   Van Dorpe, Pol ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antibonding mode; Finite difference time domain; Nanoshell; Plasmon; Poly(dimethylsiloxane); Semishell

Indexed keywords

ANTIBONDING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MATERIAL PARAMETER; METAL COMPOSITION; NANOSHELL; NANOSHELLS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; PLASMONIC RESPONSE; POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE) POLYMER;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMER FILMS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; METAL; POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTICAL PROCESSES; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77950170495     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901519p     Document Type: Article

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