Modified field enhancement and extinction by plasmonic nanowire dimers due to nonlocal response

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4176-4188

  Toscano, Giuseppe ^a   Raza, Søren ^a   Jauho, Antti Pekka ^a   Mortensen, N Asger ^a   Wubs, Martijn ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BLUE-SHIFTED; BOW TIE; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CROSS SECTION; DRUDE MODELS; EXTINCTION CROSS SECTION; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT; FIXED FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLASMONIC; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

DIMERS;

EID: 84857283588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004176     Document Type: Article

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