Light absorber based on nano-spheres on a substrate reflector

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 6697-6706

  Dai, Jin ^a   Ye, Fei ^a   Chen, Yiting ^a   Muhammed, Mamoun ^a   Qiu, Min ^a   Yan, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; MONOLAYERS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SILICA;

3-D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; CHARACTERISTIC ABSORPTION; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; MAXIMUM ABSORBANCE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PARTICLE SEPARATION;

NANOSPHERES;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; LENSES; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875754313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006697     Document Type: Article

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