Simulating light scattering from supported plasmonic nanowires

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10816-10826

  Miljković, Vladimir D ^a   Shegai, Timur ^a   Johansson, Peter ^a,b   Käll, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NANOPHOTONICS;

DIELECTRIC MEDIA; DIFFERENTIAL SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; FAR FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; GREEN'S FUNCTIONS METHOD; HIGH CURRENTS; MULTI-PHYSICS; PLASMONIC; SCATTERING SPECTRA; SILVER NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES;

GLASS; NANOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE; SILVER;

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; KINETICS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLASS; KINETICS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861108518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010816     Document Type: Article

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