Line position and quality factor of plasmonic resonances beyond the quasi-static limit: A full-wave eigenmode analysis route

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zheng, Xuezhi ^a   Volskiy, Vladimir ^a   Valev, Ventsislav K ^b   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^c  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eigenmode analysis; nanoantennae; plasmonics; volumetric method of moments (V MoM)

Indexed keywords

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; EIGENFREQUENCIES AND EIGENMODES; EIGENMODE ANALYSIS; NANOANTENNAE; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; PLASMONICS; VOLUMETRIC METHODS;

DIMERS; MODAL ANALYSIS; MONOMERS; NANORODS; PLASMONS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 84877743936     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2227684     Document Type: Article

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