Title :
Effects of inhomogeneous background to the surface plasmon resonance modes of metal nanoparticle chains
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bahcesehir Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
A fully-retarded point-dipole method is developed to obtain the dispersion relations and propagation loss for dipolar modes propagating along a chain of metal nanoparticles embedded in a multi-layered structure using layered media Green´s functions (LMGF).
Keywords :
Green´s function methods; molecular moments; nanoparticles; surface plasmon resonance; LMGF; dispersion relations; inhomogeneous background; layered media Green´s functions; metal nanoparticle chains; multilayered structure; point-dipole method; propagation loss; surface plasmon resonance modes; Damping; Dispersion; Glass; Gold; Nanoparticles; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical films; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Resonance;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4079-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4080-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192449
