Plasmon Singularities from Metal Nanoparticles in Active Media: Influence of Particle Shape on the Gain Threshold

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 347-351

  Cao, Min ^a,b   Wang, Meng ^a   Gu, Ning ^a  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gain threshold; Metal nanoparticles; Plasmon singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864077160     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9313-5     Document Type: Article

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