Optical properties of nanowire dimers with a spatially nonlocal dielectric function

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3473-3481

  McMahon, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Gray, Stephen K ^b   Schatz, George C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD; field enhancement; nanowire; nonlocal dielectric

Indexed keywords

AG NANOWIRES; CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FDTD; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL DIELECTRICS; NANO SCALE; NONLOCAL; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PHYSICAL PROCESS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL EFFECTS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL STATE; STRIKING PATTERNS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; TRIANGULAR STRUCTURES; VOLUME PLASMON;

DIMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOEXCITATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77956451664     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl101606j     Document Type: Article

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