Plasmon Hybridization in Silver Nanoislands as Semishells Arrays Coupled to a Thin Metallic Film

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 419-425

  Maaroof, Abbas I ^a   Nygaard, Jens V ^a   Sutherland, Duncan S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Optics of metals; Plasmon hybridization; Semishells; Silver thin films; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956081313     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9220-9     Document Type: Article

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