Plasmonics Effects of Nanometal Embedded in a Dielectric Substrate

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 581-589

  Chau, Yuan Fong ^a   Jiang, Zheng Hong ^a  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Localized surface Plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961172895     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9238-z     Document Type: Article

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