Effect of irregularities of nanosatellites position and size on collective electric and magnetic plasmonic resonances in spherical nanoclusters

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7667-7685

  Vallecchi, Andrea ^a   Albani, Matteo ^a   Capolino, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NANOCLUSTERS; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DIELECTRIC CORE; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; NANO CHEMISTRY; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE;

NANOSATELLITES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875691595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007667     Document Type: Article

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