Multipole surface plasmon resonances in conductively coupled metal nanowire dimers

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9711-9717

  Alber, Ina ^a   Sigle, Wilfried ^b   Demming Janssen, Frank ^c   Neumann, Reinhard ^a   Trautmann, Christina ^a,d   Van Aken, Peter A ^b   Toimil Molares, Maria Eugenia ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c CST GmbH   (Germany)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

antibonding mode; bonding mode; conductive junction; electron energy loss spectroscopy; finite element simulation; multipole order surface plasmon; nanowire dimer

Indexed keywords

ANTIBONDING; BONDING MODES; CONDUCTIVE JUNCTION; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOWIRES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870475589     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303149p     Document Type: Article

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