Surface plasmon resonances in periodic and random patterns of gold nano-disks for broadband light harvesting

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11466-11477

  Nishijima, Yoshiaki ^a   Rosa, Lorenzo ^b   Juodkazis, Saulius ^b,c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

BROADBAND LIGHT; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; EM FIELD; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LOWER RESOLUTION; RANDOM PATTERN; RESONANCE WIDTH; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SQUARE LATTICES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOLD; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861175785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011466     Document Type: Article

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