Tunable plasmonic resonance arising from broken-symmetric silver nanobeads with dielectric cores

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ho, You Zhe ^a   Chen, Wei Ting ^a   Huang, Yao Wei ^a   Wu, Pin Chieh ^a   Tseng, Ming Lun ^a   Wang, Yao Ting ^a   Chau, Yuan Fong ^b   Tsai, Din Ping ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

bonding mode; coupling; nanobead; plasmonics; surface plasmon; tunable

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONICS; RESONANCE; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMONS;

BONDING MODES; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; NANOBEADS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TUNABLE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84868356851     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/14/11/114010     Document Type: Article

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