Impact of disorder on surface plasmons in two-dimensional arrays of metal nanoparticles

Authors

Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins UniversityFollow
Greg Sun, University of Massachusetts BostonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-5-2009

Abstract

We study the impact of disorder on the properties of surface plasmons (SP) in metal nanoparticle arrays and develop analytical expressions enabling us to ascertain the degree of localization and mixing between the SP states. We show that it might be advantageous to intentionally introduce a certain degree of disorder in order to engineer the improved sensors and detectors.

Comments

The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, issue 22 (2009) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3152292.

Copyright 2009 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.

Recommended Citation

Khurgin, Jacob B. and Sun, Greg, "Impact of disorder on surface plasmons in two-dimensional arrays of metal nanoparticles" (2009). Physics Faculty Publications. 13.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/13

Publisher

American Institute of Physics

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Copyright 2009 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.