Splitting of surface plasmon frequencies of metal particles in a nematic liquid crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2920-2922

  Park, Sung Yong ^a   Stroud, D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FUNCTION; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION (DDA); MAXWELL-GARNETT APPROXIMATION (MGA); PLASMA FREQUENCY;

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 8344231622     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1800278     Document Type: Article

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