Janus magneto-electric nanosphere dimers exhibiting unidirectional visible light scattering and strong electromagnetic field enhancement

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 436-448

  Wang, Hao ^a   Liu, Pu ^a   Ke, Yanlin ^a   Su, Yunkun ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Xu, Ningsheng ^a   Deng, Shaozhi ^a   Chen, Huanjun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dimer; electromagnetic field enhancement; magnetic resonance; plasmon; unidirectional light scattering

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NANOSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS;

BACKWARD SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CHAINS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; SURFACE ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 84921767059     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505606x     Document Type: Article

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