On the scaling behavior of dipole and quadrupole modes in coupled plasmonic nanoparticle pairs

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 970-979

  Clarkson, J P ^a   Winans, J ^a   Fauchet, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PROXIMITY; COUPLED PARTICLES; DIPOLE MODE; DIPOLE PLASMON; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FRACTIONAL SHIFTS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MIE SOLUTIONS; PARTICLE DISTANCE; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; QUADRUPOLES; SCALING BEHAVIOR; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; SPHERES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84861828713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000970     Document Type: Article

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