Solving surface plasmon resonances and near field in metallic nanostructures: Green's matrix method and its applications

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2608-2617

  Gu, Ying ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^b   Gong, Qi Huang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

metallic nanostructure; nanooptics; near field; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955800059     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-4023-5     Document Type: Review

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