Optimum Forward Light Scattering by Spherical and Spheroidal Dielectric Nanoparticles with High Refractive Index

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 993-999

  Luk'Yanchuk, Boris S ^a,b   Voshchinnikov, Nikolai V ^c   Paniagua Domínguez, Ramón ^a   Kuznetsov, Arseniy I ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

forward light scattering; high index dielectric nanoparticles; Kerker's condition; Mie resonances; nanoantennas; spheroidal particles

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BACKSCATTERING; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOANTENNAS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SPHERES;

DIELECTRIC NANOPARTICLES; FORWARD LIGHT SCATTERING; KERKER'S CONDITION; MIE RESONANCE; SPHEROIDAL PARTICLES;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 84937046642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00261     Document Type: Article

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