Plasmon resonances and strong electric field enhancements in side-by-side tangent nanospheroid homodimers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 17176-17185

  Li, J N ^a   Liu, T Z ^a   Zheng, H R ^a   Gao, F ^a   Dong, J ^a   Zhang, Z L ^a   Zhang, Z Y ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; FANO RESONANCES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PLASMON RESONANCES; SIDE BY SIDES; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

NANOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84880520128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017176     Document Type: Article

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