Effect of Edge Rounding on the Extinction Properties of Hollow Metal Nanoparticles

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 955-962

  Qian, Jun ^a   Liu, Chen xu ^a   Wang, Wu deng ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Li, Yu dong ^a   Xu, Jing jun ^a   Sun, Qian ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Discrete dipole approximation; Edge rounding; Nanobox dimer; Nanoparticles; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877602632     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9496-z     Document Type: Article

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