Design of lumpy metallic nanoparticles for broadband and wide-angle light scattering

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Stokes, Nicholas ^a   Jia, Baohua ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCATTERING; ENHANCED SCATTERING; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEAR-FIELD SCATTERING; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; SCATTERING PROPERTY;

ALUMINUM; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING;

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EID: 84867513373     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4757135     Document Type: Article

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