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Measurement of Scattering Nonlinearities from a Single Plasmonic Nanoparticle
Published on: January 3, 2016
Mathematical and numerical framework for metasurfaces using thin layers of periodically distributed plasmonic
Habib Ammari1, Matias Ruiz2, Wei Wu1
1Department of Mathematics , ETH Zürich , Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
In this paper, we derive an impedance boundary condition to approximate the optical scattering effect of an array of plasmonic nanoparticles mounted on a perfectly conducting plate. We show that at some resonant frequencies the impedance blows up, allowing for a significant reduction of the scattering from the plate. Using the spectral properties of a Neumann-Poincaré type operator, we investigate the dependency of the impedance with respect to changes in the nanoparticle geometry and configuration.

