This paper presents a theoretical study of the interaction of a 6 ps laser pulse with uncoupled and plasmon-coupled gold nanoparticles. We show how the one-dimensional assembly of particles affects the optical breakdown threshold of its surroundings. For this purpose we used a fully coupled electromagnetic, thermodynamic and plasma dynamics model for a laser pulse interaction with gold nanosphe...

We theoretically investigate light scattering from a bi-sphere system consisting of a gold nanosphere and a lossless dielectric microsphere illuminated at a resonant optical wavelength of the microsphere. Using generalized multisphere Mie theory, we find that a gold nanosphere 100 times smaller than the dielectric microsphere can be detected with a subdiffraction resolution as fine as one-third...

The local surface plasmon resonance properties in systems consisting of silver nanosphere clusters are studied by Green's function. The extinction, absorption, and scattering efficiencies band of two, three, and more silver nanospheres clusters are discussed in detail. The clusters show new types of the local surface plasmon resonances compared with single silver nanosphere. Our results suggest...

1566-1199/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2012.09.013 ⇑ Corresponding authors. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.-F mail.nctu.edu.tw (H.-W. Zan). In this work, we proposed a fast and controllable blade coating process to form non-closepacked nanosphere structures. We investigated the key to obtain well-distributed nonclose-packed PS spheres with b...