Tailoring the negative-refractive-index metamaterials composed of semiconductor-metal-semiconductor gold ring/disk cavity heptamers to support strong Fano resonances in the visible spectrum

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 204-212

  Ahmadivand, Arash ^a   Pala, Nezih ^a  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; GEOMETRY; LIGHT SOURCES; METAMATERIALS; NANOCLUSTERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSING;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84982168628     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.32.000204     Document Type: Article

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