Effect of symmetry breaking on localized and delocalized surface plasmons in monolayer hexagonal-close-packed metallic truncated nanoshells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 23889-23900

  Wang, Qiugu ^a   Tang, Chaojun ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Zhan, Peng ^a   Wang, Zhenlin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DENSE ARRAYS; ENERGY VARIATIONS; HIGHER-DEGREE; HOT SPOT; HYBRIDIZED MODES; NANOSHELLS; NEAR-FIELD COUPLING; OPENING ANGLE; OPTICAL CROSS SECTIONS; STANDING WAVE; SURFACE PLASMONS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82055206324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023889     Document Type: Article

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