It is common to measure the peak absorbance of the plasmonic nanoparticles in solution and then get the following:

1. Molarity (moles/liter)
2. Number of particles per ml
3. Weight concentration (ug/ml)

I wrote a small python function to extract these parameters.  The following inputs are needed for the function

1. d_nm …

I use differential evolution method to fit the dielectric functions of metals using Differential Evolution method.

I keep needing a python code to generate the dielectric functions of plasmonic materials such as Au, Ag, Pd, and Pt. So I wrote a python version of LD.m.

LD.m is a matlab file written by Bora Ung …

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They provide a 750 hr free instance with their a free-tier program. If you want more resources, you can pay for it. See the pricing, pricing seem very reasonable.

I wanted to see …

Here is how I was implementing plasmonic materials in meep 1.1. Unlike Meep 1.1, Meep >= 1. 2 changed the way materials are defined.

Here I will describe how to change the material definition code from meep1.1 to meep 1.2 . Please note that one can still use …

This article is about simulating localized plasmon resonances in metal nanospheres using MEEP package. Generally, I am interested in solving three problems in LSPR systems:

Calculate the extinction, scattering, absorption spectra of metal nanoparticle

The procedure for doing this is very similar to the method I mentioned here.

Calculating the …

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A thin metal film in dielectric (also known as dielectric-metal-dielectric configuration) can support surface plasmons that are different in nature to the ones observed in thick metal-dielectric interfaces. Unlike, a single mode that is observed in thick metal film, thin metal films exhibit two types of modes for the …

Particles scatter and absorb electromagnetic radiation. One often needs to compare the amount of scattering/absorption/extinction for particles of different shapes, composition, sizes and incident light properties (polarization, frequency and angle). In this regard, the concept of cross-sections comes into picture. There are three types of cross-sections, 1) scattering …

In MEEP (1.1.1), dielectric structures are often created by constructive geometry (adding and subtracting primitive shapes). The primitive shapes that are allowed are blocks, cylinders, ellipsoids and cones. To create a complex shape, one has to decompose the geometry into these primitive shapes. Over the weekend, I was …