Unveiling ultrasharp scattering-switching signatures of layered gold-dielectric-gold nanospheres

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2066-2074

  Sikdar, Debabrata ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Cheng, Wenlong ^a,b   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING EFFECTS; SCATTERING PROFILES; SCATTERING RESONANCE; SCATTERING SIGNATURES; SCATTERING SPECTRA; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE;

GOLD; NANOSPHERES; SURFACE SCATTERING;

SCATTERING;

EID: 84882987090     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.002066     Document Type: Article

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