Oscillons, solitons, and domain walls in arrays of nonlinear plasmonic nanoparticles

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Noskov, Roman ^a   Belov, Pavel ^a   Kivshar, Yuri ^a,b  

^a ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870833729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00873     Document Type: Article

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