Plasmonic nanoclusters with rotational symmetry: Polarization-invariant far-field response vs changing near-field distribution

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 11138-11146

  Rahmani, Mohsen ^a   Yoxall, Edward ^a   Hopkins, Ben ^b   Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a   Kivshar, Yuri ^b   Hong, Minghui ^c   Phillips, Chris ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

near field optical microscopy; plasmonic oligomers; polarization independence; symmetry

Indexed keywords

COUPLED DIPOLE APPROXIMATIONS; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONIC OLIGOMERS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENCE; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

POLARIZATION;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84891368485     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404869c     Document Type: Article

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