Subwavelength plasmonic kinks in arrays of metallic nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2733-2739

  Noskov, Roman E ^a   Belov, Pavel A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a,b  

^a ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES;

BISTABLES; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PLASMONIC; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

PLASMONS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84856490206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002733     Document Type: Article

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