Ultra-directional forward scattering by individual core-shell nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 16178-16187

  Liu, Wei ^a   Zhang, Jianfa ^a   Lei, Bing ^a   Ma, Haotong ^a   Xie, Wenke ^a   Hu, Haojun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FORWARD SCATTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES;

ANGULAR SCATTERING; BACKWARD SCATTERING; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MAGNETIC RESPONSE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRIC SENSING DEVICES;

EID: 84903712790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.016178     Document Type: Article

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