Transformation-optics description of plasmonic nanostructures containing blunt edges/corners: From symmetric to asymmetric edge rounding

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6492-6506

  Luo, Yu ^a   Lei, Dang Yuan ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Pendry, John B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blunt nanostructures; broadband light harvesting; Fano resonance; plasmonics; transformation optics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION EFFECTS; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BROADBAND LIGHT; DIPOLAR MODES; EDGE ROUNDING; FANO RESONANCES; FINITE ELEMENT; LIGHT-HARVESTING; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOCYLINDERS; NANOPARTICLE GEOMETRIES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

BIOSENSORS; GEOMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOWIRES; OPTICS; PLASMONS; SLOW LIGHT;

LIGHT;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84864199190     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3022684     Document Type: Article

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