A subwavelength plasmonic metamolecule exhibiting magnetic-based optical Fano resonance

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-99

  Shafiei, Farbod ^a   Monticone, Francesco ^b   Le, Khai Q ^b   Liu, Xing Xiang ^b   Hartsfield, Thomas ^a   Alù, Andrea ^b   Li, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLES; METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; ARTIFICIAL MAGNETISMS; FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANTS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; OPTICAL MAGNETISMS; SCATTERING RESONANCE; SENSING APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY;

NANOMAGNETICS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL FANO SCATTERING RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SIMULATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 84873571450     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.249     Document Type: Article

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