Near-field for electrodynamics at sub-wavelength scales: Generalizing to an arbitrary number of dielectrics

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Li, Shaohong ^a,b   Gao, Yi ^b   Neuhauser, Daniel ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; BENCHMARK SYSTEM; DIELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IN-VACUUM; METAL-DIELECTRIC SYSTEM; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NEAR FIELD REGION; NEAR-FIELD; NON-SPHERICAL; OPTICAL DETECTION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS; TIME STEP;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; POISSON EQUATION; SILICA; SILVER;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

GOLD; LIPID; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VACUUM;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; LIPIDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VACUUM;

EID: 84863771374     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4726076     Document Type: Article

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