Modal analysis of nanoplasmonic multilayer spherical resonators

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 765-776

  Mock, Adam ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanocavities; plasmonics; subwavelength structures; theory and design

Indexed keywords

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS; HYBRID MODE; METAL LAYER; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; METALLIC NANOSPHERES; MULTI-LAYERED; NANO-CAVITIES; NUMBER OF LAYERS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; QUALITY FACTORS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RESONANCE MODE; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SPHERICAL RESONATORS; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THEORY AND DESIGN;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MODAL ANALYSIS; NANOSPHERES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

METALS;

EID: 80052339210     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2163388     Document Type: Article

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