Collective electric and magnetic plasmonic resonances in spherical nanoclusters

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2754-2772

  Vallecchi, Andrea ^a   Albani, Matteo ^a   Capolino, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; METAMATERIALS; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SPHERES;

APPROXIMATE MODEL; DIELECTRIC SPHERES; DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EXTINCTION EFFICIENCY; HIGHER ORDER; INTERACTION EFFECT; ISOTROPIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIC POLARIZABILITIES; MAXWELL-GARNETT MODELS; METALLIC NANOSPHERES; MULTIPOLES; NANO CHEMISTRY; NEGATIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE VALUES; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PACKED ARRAYS; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SCATTERED FIELD; WAVE EXPANSION;

NANOMAGNETICS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79851468826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002754     Document Type: Article

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