Investigation of resonant properties of metal core-shell nanoparticles using T-matrix calculations

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2733-2740

  Liu, Lei ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Cao, Xuewei ^a   Xu, Xiaoxuan ^a   Wang, Yufang ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eccentric nanosphere; Multilayer nanosphere; Near field scattering; T matrix method

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; ECCENTRIC DISTANCES; ECCENTRIC NANOSPHERE; ELECTRICAL FIELD; NEAR-FIELD SCATTERING; PLASMON RESONANCES; RESONANCE MODE; RESONANCE STATE; T-MATRIX; T-MATRIX METHOD; THREE-LAYER; TWO LAYERS;

MUSCLE; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SILICA;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

ELECTRIC FIELD; SCATTERING; SILICA; SILVER;

EID: 80053207741     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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