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Plasmon hybridization for real metals

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Chinese Science Bulletin

Abstract

We present three important extensions of the plasmon hybridization (PH) method: a generalization of the method to include realistic non-Drude dielectric permittivities for metals, the development of an algorithm for the calculation of plasmon-induced electric field enhancements, and the extension of the PH method to the modeling of plasmonic Fano resonances. We illustrate these developments with an application to a silver nanosphere dimer and a symmetric silver nanosphere heptamer.

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  1. Department of Physics, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA

    Kui Bao & Peter Nordlander

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA

    Heidar Sobhani & Peter Nordlander

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Bao, K., Sobhani, H. & Nordlander, P. Plasmon hybridization for real metals. Chin. Sci. Bull. 55, 2629–2634 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-010-4070-y

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