Dark and bright localized surface plasmons in nanocrosses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11034-11051

  Verellen, Niels ^a,b   Van Dorpe, Pol ^b   Vercruysse, Dries ^b   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOMETRY; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ARM ANGLE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CROSS ARM; CROSS STRUCTURES; DENSITY PROFILE; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; FANO INTERFERENCE; FANO RESONANCES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HIGHER ORDER; INCIDENT RADIATION; INTERSECTION POINTS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC; QUADRUPOLES; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SPECTRAL TUNABILITY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958207836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011034     Document Type: Article

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