Non-exponential decay of dark localized surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6720-6727

  Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BIO-IMAGING; DECAY PROCESS; EXPONENTIAL RELAXATION; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LOCAL RELAXATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; MARKOVIAN APPROXIMATION; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; MATERIAL LOSS; MEMORY FUNCTIONS; NANO-SCALE OBJECTS; NEAR-FIELD; NONEXPONENTIAL DECAYS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; RELAXATION BEHAVIORS; STRONG DISPERSION; SUB-DIFFRACTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84858965189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006720     Document Type: Article

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