It is important to know the magnitude and distribution of electric field near the metallic nanoparticles at plasmon resonance. One can look at the electric field and say whether the plasmon mode is dipolar or higher order mode such as qudrapolar mode. At many times one is also interested to …

Aim of this article/post: To 1) introduce the concept of Designer surface plasmons or Spoof plasmons and 2) Dispersion relations and Visualization of the fields using MEEP code. (Some of the text/simulations are taken from my paper in the area of DSPs.) Surface Plasmons are electromagnetic waves that …

Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) is an important tool in plasmonics research. Using DDA, one can calculate scattering properties of nanoparticles at various wavelengths, polarizations and surrounding medium. The specialty of DDA is that one can calculate scattering properties of irregular shape particles (particles other than spheroids). DDA is based on …

nmie tool on Nanohub.org. This tool calculates the extinction, scattering, and absorption efficiencies of single nanoparticle (1 layer),core-shell nanoparticle (2 layer) and nanomatryushka nanoparticle (3 layer) using MIE formulation. Since 2009, I have been a regular user of Nanohub.org. www.Nanohub.orgis a website that provides …

One needs to fit the reflectivity curves obtained in surface plasmon resonance experiments with theoretical models. A free software (for non commercial use) called Winspall exactly does that. According to the developers, WINSPALL is a PC based software which computes the reflectivity of optical multilayer systems. It is based on …

The electric field from an oscillating dipole is given by:, where [tex]\hat{r}[/tex] is the position vector, [tex] \omega [/tex] is the frequency of dipole oscillation, [tex]\textbf{p}[/tex] is the dipole moment. The two terms in the electric field consists of 1) near field (area near …

These are some resources on Electromagnetics/plasmonics/nanophotonics I will maintain a list of free resources on electromagnetics, plasmonics, nanophotonics, optics and other related topics here. If any of you (readers) know any other free resources related to this topic, please let me know and I can add into these …

[caption id="attachment_263" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Propagation of surface plasmons[/caption] Surface plasmons (SP's) are electromagnetic waves that propagate at the interface between metals (such as Ag, Au ) and dielectric material. Here I have simulated the propagation of surface plasmons on Ag-air interface, the color indicates the magnitude of …

A cool animation which I reproduced from W.M Saj, Optics Express, Vol 13, 13, 2005 using freely obtained FDTD software (MEEP). It demonstrates the propagation of electromagnetic energy in hexagonal array of silver nanorods due to plasmonic coupling. The source is offset from the center and the energy is …