Dark modes and Fano resonances in plasmonic clusters excited by cylindrical vector beams

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8415-8423

  Sancho Parramon, Jordi ^a,b   Bosch, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

cylindrical vector beams; electromagnetic cold spots; Fano resonance; focused illumination; nanoparticle; near field enhancement; plasmon hybridization; subradiance; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

COLD SPOTS; CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAM; FANO RESONANCES; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; SUBRADIANCES;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; NANOPARTICLES; RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866661294     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303243p     Document Type: Article

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