Plasmonic hot spots: Nanogap enhancement vs. focusing effects from surrounding nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14656-14662

  Pavaskar, Prathamesh ^a   Theiss, Jesse ^a   Cronin, Stephen B ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOCUSING; NANOPARTICLES;

AU FILM; AU ISLANDS; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FOCUSING EFFECT; GAP SIZE; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HOT SPOT; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; NANO-GAP; NANO-ISLANDS; NANOGAPS; PLASMONIC; SMALL GAPS; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863743761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014656     Document Type: Article

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