Complex modes and near-zero permittivity in 3D arrays of plasmonic nanoshells: Loss compensation using gain [Invited]

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1077-1089

  Campione, Salvatore ^a   Albani, Matteo ^b   Capolino, Filippo ^a  

^a Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D ARRAYS; ACTIVE MATERIAL; COMPLEX MODES; DIELECTRIC CORE; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; EMISSION BANDS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FREQUENCY REGIONS; GAIN MATERIALS; GAIN MEDIA; LOSS COMPENSATION; MAXWELL-GARNETT THEORY; NEAR-ZERO PERMITTIVITY; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PLASMONIC; WAVE NUMBERS; EPSILON-NEAR ZEROS; PLASMONIC NANOSHELLS;

FLUORESCENCE; METAMATERIALS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PERMITTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; PLASMONICS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 83655193649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.001077     Document Type: Article

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