Spiral surface plasmon modes on uniform and tapered metallic nanorods

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2529-2534

  Chen, Chih Min ^a   Young, Chih Kai ^a   Chen, Kuan Ren ^a   Lan, Yung Chiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS;

FIELD ENERGY; HIGHER-ORDER; METALLIC NANORODS; NANOROD RADIUS; RELATIVE ROTATION; SILVER NANORODS; SPIRAL SURFACES; TWO-COMPONENT;

NANORODS;

EID: 84884691873     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.002529     Document Type: Article

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