Plasmon-enhanced depolarization of reflected light from arrays of nanoparticle dimers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 21081-21090

  Walsh, Gary F ^a,b   Forestiere, Carlo ^a,c   Dal Negro, Luca ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b US Army NSRDEC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES; EXCITATION ANGLES; FAR-FIELD; IN-PLANE DIFFRACTION; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MULTIPLE-SCATTERING THEORY; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL CROSS SECTIONS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; PLASMONIC; RAYLEIGH; REFLECTED LIGHT; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL REGION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

POLARIZATION;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DIMERIZATION; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80053967211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021081     Document Type: Article

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