Light trapping with plasmonic particles: Beyond the dipole model

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25230-25241

  Beck, Fiona J ^a,b   Mokkapati, Sudha ^a   Catchpole, Kylie R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; HIGH-INDEX SUBSTRATES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTIMAL ARRAYS; PLASMONIC PARTICLES; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; RESONANT SURFACES; SI SUBSTRATES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82955226179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025230     Document Type: Article

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