Ultrastrong coupling of plasmons and excitons in a nanoshell

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11483-11492

  Cacciola, Adriano ^a   Di Stefano, Omar ^a   Stassi, Roberto ^b   Saija, Rosalba ^a   Savasta, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Localized surface plasmons; Nanoshell; Plexcitons; Polaritons; Ultrastrong coupling

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MOLECULES; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES;

LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANOSHELL; PLEXCITONS; POLARITONS; SCATTERING CALCULATIONS; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; TRANSITION FREQUENCIES;

SURFACE PLASMONS;

EID: 84912544663     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504652w     Document Type: Article

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