Polarizability of nanowires at surfaces: exact solution for general geometry

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Polarizability of nanowires at surfaces: exact solution for general geometry

Jesper Jung and Thomas G. Pedersen »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 3663-3674 (2012)
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Abstract

The polarizability of a nanostructure is an important parameter that determines the optical properties. An exact semi-analytical solution of the electrostatic polarizability of a general geometry consisting of two segments forming a cylinder that can be arbitrarily buried in a substrate is derived using bipolar coordinates, cosine-, and sine-transformations. Based on the presented expressions, we analyze the polarizability of several metal nanowire geometries that are important within plasmonics. Our results provide physical insight into the interplay between the multiple resonances found in the polarizability of metal nanowires at surfaces.

1. Introduction

The electric polarizability of a nanoparticle, i.e. the relative tendency of the electron cloud to be distorted from its normal shape by an external field, is an important concept because it determines the particle’s optical properties. Given the polarizability, it is usually straightforward to determine the light scattering and absorption properties of a nanoparticle [1

S. A. Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (Springer, 2007).

L. Novotny and B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-optics (Cambridge 2006).

]. By illuminating a metal nanoparticle, collective excitations of the free conduction electrons of the metal can be resonantly excited. Such excitations are known as particle plasmons or localized surface plasmons [3

A. V. Zayats and I. I. Smolyaninov, “Near-field photonics: surface plasmon polaritons and localized surface plasmons,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 5, S16–S50 (2003). [CrossRef]

–6

S. Lal, S. Link, and N. J. Halas, “Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding,” Nat. Photonics 1, 641–648 (2007). [CrossRef]

] and give rise to resonances in the polarizability. Thus, given the polarizability of a metal nanoparticle, its particle plasmons can easily be identified. Particle plasmon resonances are interesting from an application point of view because they allow for strong light scattering and large electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the particles. These properties suggest a variety of applications, e.g. within surface enhanced raman scattering [7

M. Moskovits, “Surface-enhanced spectroscopy,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 57, 783–826 (1985). [CrossRef]

], biomedical detection [8

Y. C. Coa, R. Jin, and C. A. Mirkin, “Nanoparticles with Raman spectroscopic fingerprints for DNA and RNA detection,” Science 297, 1536–1540 (2002). [CrossRef]

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], and plasmon enhanced solar cells [10

K. R. Catchpole and A. Polman, “Plasmonic solar cells,” Opt. Express 16, 21793–21800 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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V. E. Ferry, J. N. Munday, and H. A. Atwater, “Design considerations for plasmonic photovoltaics,” Adv. Mater. 22, 4794–4808 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. Spherical nanoparticles can be analyzed analytically using the old, but famous Lorenz-Mie scattering theory [13

L. Lorenz, “Lysbevægelsen i og udenfor en af plane lysbølger belyst kugle,” K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 6, 1–62 (1890).

–15

C. F. Bohren and D. R. Huffman, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Wiley, 1983).

] and, also, the ”two-dimensional” case of a small cylinder has been analyzed a long time ago [16

L. Rayleigh, “The dispersal of light by a dielectric cylinder,” Phil. Mag. 36, 365–376 (1918).

, 17

J. R. Wait, “Scattering of a plane wave from a circular cylinder at oblique incidence,” Can. J. Phys. 33, 189–195 (1955). [CrossRef]

]. However, for more complicated structures, no analytical solutions can in general be found. In the analysis of such structures, sophisticated numerical schemes such as finite difference time domain [18

A. Taflove and S. Hagness, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Artech House, 2000).

], finite element [19

J. Jin, The Finite Element Method in Electrodynamics (Wiley, 2002).

], or Green’s function integral equation [20

T. Søndergaard, “Modeling of plasmonic nanostructures: Green’s function integral equation methods,” Phys. Status Solidi B 244, 3448–3462 (2007). [CrossRef]

–23

J. Jung, T. G. Pedersen, T. Søndergaard, K. Pedersen, A. N. Larsen, and B. B. Nielsen, “Electrostatic plasmon resonances of metal nanospheres in layered geometries,” Phys. Rev. B 81, 125413 (2010). [CrossRef]

] approaches are often utilized. However, such approaches are complicated and from a computational point of view often very time-consuming. Thus, analytical modeling, whenever possible, is always favorable.

In the present paper, we present a semi-analytical analysis of the polarizability of the very general geometry shown in Fig. 1(a). The geometry is two-dimensional in the sense that it is invariant under translation along the direction out of the paper. It consists of two domains, described by the dielectric constants ɛ₁ and ɛ₂, which together form a cylinder. This cylinder may be placed in a background composed of two semi-infinite half-spaces with optical properties described by the dielectric constants ε₃ and ε₄. As the interface can cut the cylinder at an arbitrary position and all four dielectric constants can be chosen freely, the structure allows for the study of several different geometries. Two examples are depicted in Fig. 1(b) and (c). In (b), we have chosen ε₁ = ε_Ag, ε₂ = ε₄ = ε_SiO₂, and ε₃ = ε_air, whereas in (c), we have chosen ε₁ = ε₂ = ε_Au, ε₄ = ε_Si, and ε₃ = ε_air. Both configurations are interesting in connection with plasmon assisted solar cells, see e.g. Refs. [24

F. Hallermann, C. Rockstuhl, S. Fahr, G. Seifert, S. Wackerow, H. Graener, G. V. Plessen, and F. Lederer, “On the use of localized plasmon polaritons in solar cells,” Phys. Status Solidi A 205, 2844–2861 (2008). [CrossRef]

, 25

J. W. Yoon, W. J. Park, K. J. Lee, S. H. Song, and R. Magnusson, “Surface-plasmon mediated total absorption of light into silicon,” Opt. Express 19, 20673–20680 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. Previously, simpler geometries such as half cylinders [26

P. C. Waterman, “Surface fields and the T matrix,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 2968–2977 (1999). [CrossRef]

] or double half-cylinders in homogenous surroundings have been analyzed [27

A. V. Radchik, A. V. Paley, G. B. Smith, and A. V. Vagov, “Polarization and resonant absorption in intersecting cylinders and spheres,” J. Appl. Phys. 76, 4827–4835 (1994). [CrossRef]

–29

M Pitkonen, “A closed-form solution for the polarizability of a dielectric double half-cylinder,” J. Electromagn. Waves Appl. 24, 1267–1277 (2010). [CrossRef]

]. Also, a double half-sphere consisting of two conjoint hemispheres with different dielectric constants has been analyzed [30

H. Kettunen, H. Wallen, and A. Sihvola, “Polarizability of a dielectic hemisphere,” J. Appl. Phys. 102, 044105 (2007). [CrossRef]

]. Recently convex and concave rough metal surfaces formed by cylindrical protrusions have been studied by Pendry and coworkers using the approach of transformation optics (TO) [31

Y. Luo, J. B. Pendry, and A. Aubry, “Surface plasmons and singularities,” Nano Lett. 10, 4186–4191 (2010). [CrossRef]

, 32

Y. Luo, A. Aubry, and J. B. Pendry, “Electromagnetic contribution to surface-enhanced Raman scattering from rough metal surfaces: a transformation optics approach,” Phys. Rev. B 83, 155422 (2011). [CrossRef]

]. They analyzed cut cylindrical protrusions on semi-infinite metal surfaces. This is opposite to the present work, where we only consider dielectric surfaces. In fact, the present approach cannot be used to analyze metal surfaces because we are interested in the polarizability which will lose its well defined meaning for a metal nanowire on an infinite metal surface. However, the TO approach of Refs. [31

Y. Luo, J. B. Pendry, and A. Aubry, “Surface plasmons and singularities,” Nano Lett. 10, 4186–4191 (2010). [CrossRef]

, 32

] is also restricted in the sense that the dielectric constant of the protrusion and the surface must be identical. Thus, by carefully comparing the TO approach to the present it can be seen that they are in fact capable of analyzing complimentary structures. The present paper is a significant extension of our previous work, presented in Ref. [33

J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express 19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

], where we analyzed the polarizability of two conjoint half-cylinders embedded in two semi-infinite half spaces. Compared to Ref. [33

J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express 19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

], the present approach is much more general in that we allow for an arbitrary degree of burial of the nanowire. The approach of Ref. [33

J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express 19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] is restricted to half-buried nanowires only. As a consequence the new scheme is better suited for representing realistic experimental geometries. It can, e.g., handle nanowires with very different aspect ratios, i.e. wires with very different height/width ratios, and it can handle arbitrary contact angles between a nanowire and the supporting substrate. Furthermore, the present work provides more physical insight into the different resonances that come into play when the polarizability of complicated metal nanostructures are considered.

Fig. 1 (a) cross section of the geometry under consideration. The optical properties are described by the four dielectric constants ε₁ to ε₄. (b) and (c) two examples of geometries that can be analyzed using the approach.

The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. 2, we present a derivation of the electrostatic polarizability of the geometry sketched in Fig. 1(a). Section 3 presents calculations and an analysis of the polarizability and its resonances for several important geometries. In Sec. 4, we offer our conclusions.

2. Theory

A detailed schematic of the geometry studied is shown in Fig. 2. It consists of four regions 1, 2, 3, and 4. A cylinder of radius r is cut by an infinite interface at an arbitrary position d from its center |d| ≤ r. The segment of the cylinder above (below) the interface is denoted 1 (2) and has optical properties described by ε₁ (ε₂). The surrounding medium above (below) the interface is denoted 3 (4) and has a dielectric constant ε₃ (ε₄). To comply with the symmetry of the problem it is an advantage to switch to the bipolar coordinates u and v defined as [34

P. M. Morse and H. Feshbach, Methods of Theoretical Physics, Part II (McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., 1953).

, 35

H. E. Lockwood, A Book of Curves (Cambridge University Press, 1963).

]

x = \frac{sinh u}{cosh u - cos v} and y = \frac{sin v}{cosh u - cos v} .

(1)

The domains of u and v for the four different regions are shown in Fig. 2. The cut of the interface can be expressed in terms of the angle w, which we, with no loss of generality, choose between 0 < w < π. The surface of the cylinder is defined such that v = w on the part above the interface and v = w − π on the part below the interface. In terms of w, the radius of the cylinder is given as r = 1/sin w and the distance from the center of the cylinder to the interface is given as d = |cot w|. It should be noted that the geometry is defined such that the distance unit is half the intersection of the nanowire by the substrate plane, i.e. half the dashed line in Fig. 2. When investigating a geometry with a specific physical dimension the polarizabilities obtained in the present work should therefore be multiplied by the square of this distance measured in physical units in order to convert the results into standard units.

Fig. 2 Cross section of the geometry analyzed. In bipolar coordinates (u and v), the four different regions in the xy plane are given as ε₁ : {−∞ < u < ∞ and w < v < π}, ε₂ : {−∞ < u < ∞ and −π < v < w − π}, ε₃ : {−∞ < u < ∞ and 0 < v < w}, and ε₄ : {−∞ < u < ∞ and w − π < v < 0}.

The analysis is started by assuming that all four dielectric constants are linear, isotropic, homogenous, and frequency dependent and that the nanowire diameter is small compared to the wavelength (e.g. < 50 nm at optical wavelengths). The latter allows us to perform an electrostatic analysis. We therefore introduce the electrostatic potential ϕ(r) which is related to the electrostatic electric field as E(r) = −∇ϕ(r). The electrostatic potential must fulfil Laplace’s equation

\nabla^{2} ϕ (r) = 0 \forall r,

(2)

with boundary conditions ϕ_i = ϕ_j and ε_in̂ · ∇ϕ_i = ε_jn̂ · ∇ϕ_j on S, where the subscripts i and j refer to the different domains (1,2,3, and 4) and S to the boundaries. In order to derive the polarizability we first set up expressions for the electrostatic potential and its normal derivative in each of the four regions and then match these using the boundary conditions above.

The total potential ϕ_i(u,v) is written as a sum of the incident potential ϕ₀(u,v) and the scattered potential φ_i(u,v). We consider the two linear independent polarizations along y and x, vertical and horizontal, respectively. For vertical (horizontal) polarization we look for solutions that are even (odd) functions of x and thereby u. Thus, for vertical polarization we may write the potential using cosine-transformations as

ϕ_{i} (u, v) = \int_{0}^{\infty} \bar{ϕ_{i}} (λ, v) cos (λ u) d λ, \bar{ϕ_{i}} (λ, v) = \frac{2}{π} \int_{0}^{\infty} ϕ_{i} (u, v) cos (λ u) d u,

(3)

and for horizontal polarization we may write using sine-transformations

ϕ_{i} (u, v) = \int_{0}^{\infty} \bar{ϕ_{i}} (λ, v) sin (λ u) d λ, \bar{ϕ_{i}} (λ, v) = \frac{2}{π} \int_{0}^{\infty} ϕ_{i} (u, v) sin (λ u) d u .

(4)

In order to comply with the Laplace equation, the scattered part of the potential in λ,v coordinates may be written as

\bar{φ_{i}} (λ, v) = c_{i} (λ) cosh (λ v) + s_{i} (λ) sinh (λ v) .

(5)

For vertical and horizontal polarizations the incident potentials are given as

ϕ_{0}^{(v)} (u, v) = - \frac{sin v}{cosh u - cos v} {\begin{matrix} 1 & for v > 0 \\ \frac{ε_{3}}{ε_{4}} & for v < 0 \end{matrix} and ϕ_{0}^{(h)} (u, v) = - \frac{sinh u}{cosh u - cos v},

(6)

respectively. Utilizing the approach presented in Ref. [33

J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express 19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

], it is easy to show that the vertical and horizontal polarizabilities may be found as

α^{(v)} = 4 π \int_{0}^{\infty} λ s_{3} (λ) d λ and α^{(h)} = 4 π \int_{0}^{\infty} λ c_{3} (λ) d λ .

(7)

The constants s₃(λ) and c₃(λ) can be derived using the boundary conditions. In order to utilize the boundary conditions for the normal derivative of the potential, we need the following two expressions for the derivative with respect to v of the incident potential. By taking the derivative of Eq. (6) and using Eqs. (3) and (4) it can be shown that

\frac{\partial}{\partial v} {\bar{ϕ}}_{0}^{(v)} (λ, v) = \frac{2 λ cosh [λ (π - | v |)]}{sinh [λ π]} and \frac{\partial}{\partial v} {\bar{ϕ}}_{0}^{(h)} (λ, v) = \frac{2 λ sinh [λ (π - | v |)]}{sinh (λ π)} sgn (v) .

(8)

With the notation C_pq ≡ cosh[λ(pπ − qw)] and S_pq ≡ sinh[λ (pπ − qw)] the continuity of the potential for both polarizations yields

\begin{matrix} c_{1} (λ) C_{01} - s_{1} (λ) S_{01} = c_{3} (λ) C_{01} - s_{3} (λ) S_{01}, \\ c_{2} (λ) C_{11} - s_{2} (λ) S_{11} = c_{4} (λ) C_{11} - s_{4} (λ) S_{11}, \\ c_{1} (λ) C_{10} + s_{1} (λ) S_{10} = c_{2} (λ) C_{10} - s_{2} (λ) S_{10}, \\ c_{3} (λ) = c_{4} (λ) . \end{matrix}

(9)

For vertical polarization the boundary conditions for the normal derivative of the potential yields

\begin{matrix} ε_{1} [- c_{1} (λ) S_{01} + s_{1} (λ) C_{01} + \frac{2 C_{11}}{S_{10}}] = ε_{3} [- c_{3} (λ) S_{01} + s_{3} (λ) C_{01} + \frac{2 C_{11}}{S_{10}}], \\ ε_{2} [- c_{2} (λ) S_{11} + s_{2} (λ) C_{11} + \frac{ε_{3}}{ε_{4}} \frac{2 C_{01}}{S_{10}}] = ε_{4} [- c_{4} (λ) S_{11} + s_{4} (λ) C_{11} + \frac{ε_{3}}{ε_{4}} \frac{2 C_{01}}{S_{10}}], \\ ε_{1} [c_{1} (λ) S_{10} + s_{1} (λ) C_{10} + \frac{2}{S_{10}}] = ε_{2} [- c_{2} (λ) S_{10} + s_{2} (λ) C_{10} + \frac{ε_{3}}{ε_{4}} \frac{2}{S_{10}}], \\ ε_{3} s_{3} (λ) = ε_{4} s_{4} (λ), \end{matrix}

(10)

and for horizontal polarization they read

\begin{matrix} ε_{1} [- c_{1} (λ) S_{01} + s_{1} (λ) C_{01} + \frac{2 S_{11}}{S_{10}}] = ε_{3} [- c_{3} (λ) S_{01} + s_{3} (λ) C_{01} + \frac{2 S_{11}}{S_{10}}], \\ ε_{2} [- c_{2} (λ) S_{11} + s_{2} (λ) C_{11} + \frac{2 S_{01}}{S_{10}}] = ε_{4} [- c_{4} (λ) S_{11} + s_{4} (λ) C_{11} + \frac{2 S_{01}}{S_{10}}], \\ ε_{1} [c_{1} (λ) S_{10} + s_{1} (λ) C_{10}] = ε_{2} [- c_{2} (λ) S_{10} + s_{2} (λ) C_{10}], \\ ε_{3} s_{3} (λ) = ε_{4} s_{4} (λ) . \end{matrix}

(11)

By solving the equation system formed by the 8 equations of Eqs. (9) and (10) [Eqs. (9) and (11)], s₃(λ) [c₃(λ)] can be found and the polarizability can be calculated using Eq. (7). Generally both the solution of s₃(λ) and c₃(λ) are fractions on the form 2N/(DS₁₀), where D and N are given as

D = \sum_{p, q} D_{p q} C_{p q} and N = \sum_{p, q} N_{p q} {C_{p q} - C_{10}}

(12)

with

\begin{array}{l} D_{20} = (ε_{1} + ε_{2}) (ε_{1} + ε_{3}) (ε_{2} + ε_{4}) (ε_{3} + ε_{4}), \\ D_{24} = (ε_{1} - ε_{2}) (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) (ε_{2} - ε_{4}) (ε_{3} - ε_{4}), \\ D_{22} = 2 (ε_{1}^{2} - ε_{2} ε_{3}) (ε_{2} ε_{3} - ε_{4}^{2}) - 2 ε_{1} {(ε_{2} - ε_{3})}^{2} ε_{4}, \\ D_{02} = - 2 (ε_{1}^{2} + ε_{2} ε_{3}) (ε_{2} ε_{3} + ε_{4}^{2}) + 2 ε_{1} {(ε_{2} + ε_{3})}^{2} ε_{4}, \\ D_{00} = - 2 (ε_{1}^{2} - ε_{2} ε_{3}) (ε_{2} ε_{3} - ε_{4}^{2}) - 2 ε_{1} {(ε_{2} + ε_{3})}^{2} ε_{4} - 8 ε_{1} ε_{2} ε_{3} ε_{4} . \end{array}

(13)

For s₃(λ), i.e. vertical polarization, N is computed from

\begin{array}{l} N_{14} = - (ε_{1} - ε_{2}) (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) (ε_{2} - ε_{4}) ε_{3}, \\ N_{34} = (ε_{1} - ε_{2}) (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) (ε_{2} - ε_{4}) ε_{4}, \\ N_{32} = (ε_{1} + ε_{2}) (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) (ε_{2} + ε_{4}) ε_{4}, \\ N_{1 - 2} = (ε_{1} + ε_{2}) (ε_{1} + ε_{3}) (ε_{2} - ε_{4}) ε_{3}, \\ N_{12} = 2 (ε_{1}^{2} ε_{4}^{2} + ε_{2}^{2} ε_{3}^{2}) + (ε_{3} + ε_{4}) [ε_{1}^{2} (ε_{4} - ε_{2}) + ε_{2}^{2} (ε_{3} - ε_{1}) + (ε_{1} + ε_{2}) ε_{3} ε_{4}] \\ - ε_{1} ε_{2} (ε_{3}^{2} + 6 ε_{3} ε_{4} + ε_{4}^{2}) . \end{array}

(14)

There exists a simple symmetry between s₃(λ) and c₃(λ) and thereby also α^(v) and α^(h): By substituting ε_i with 1/ε_i for all i s₃(λ) transforms into −c₃(λ) and vice versa. In the following, we will therefore mainly focus on vertical polarization, because the corresponding results for horizontal polarization can be obtained by performing simple substitutions.

The general expression for s₃(λ) simplifies substantially for simpler geometries. For a cut cylinder in a homogenous surrounding (ε₁ ≡ ε and ε₂ = ε₃ = ε₄ ≡ ε_h) s₃(λ), for example, reduces to

s_{3} (λ) = \frac{N_{12} (C_{12} - C_{10}) + N_{32} (C_{32} - C_{10})}{D_{00} + D_{20} C_{20} + D_{02} C_{02}} \frac{2}{S_{10}},

(15)

where D₀₀ = −4εε_h, D₂₀ = (ε + ε_h)², D₀₂ = −(ε − ε_h)², N₁₂ = (ε − 3ε_h)(ε − ε_h)/2, and N₃₂ = (ε + ε_h)(ε − ε_h)/2.

For w → 0 the geometry describes a full cylinder lying on a substrate. In this case, the dominant contributions to the integrals of Eq. (7) are from λ ≫ 1 and we are therefore allowed to approximate as C₁₁ ≈ S₁₁ ≈ exp[λ (π − w)]/2 and C₁₀ ≈ S₁₀ ≈ exp(λπ)/2. Using this and taking ε₂ = ε₄ we find

s_{3} (λ) \approx \frac{2 (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) ε_{4} e^{- λ (2 π + w)} [e^{2 λ π} (ε_{1} + ε_{4}) - 2 (e^{2 λ w} - 1) (ε_{1} - ε_{3})]}{(ε_{1} + ε_{4}) [ε_{3} (ε_{1} + ε_{4}) cosh (λ w) + (ε_{3}^{2} + ε_{1} ε_{4}) sinh (λ w)]},

(16)

which for λ ≫ 1 can be approximated as

s_{3} (λ) \approx \frac{2 (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) ε_{4} e^{- λ w}}{ε_{3} (ε_{1} + ε_{4}) cosh (λ w) + (ε_{3}^{2} + ε_{1} ε_{4}) sinh (λ w)} .

(17)

By performing the integral of Eq. (7) using the above expression for s₃(λ) we obtain the simple result for the vertical polarizability

α^{(v)} = \frac{4 π ε_{4}}{w^{2} (ε_{4} - ε_{3})} {Li}_{2} [\frac{(ε_{3} - ε_{1}) (ε_{3} - ε_{4})}{(ε_{3} + ε_{1}) (ε_{3} + ε_{4})}],

(18)

where Li_s(z) is the polylogarithm (or Jonquire’s function [36

A. Jonquiere, “Note sur la serie $\sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n}}{n^{s}}$ ,” Bulletin de la Socit Mathmatique de France 17, 142–152 (1889).

]). A resonance at ε₁ = −ε₃ is revealed. Note that, as expected, the polarizability is proportional to the radius squared r² = 1/sin² w ≈ 1/w² for w small. By performing similar approximations for the horizontally polarized case c₃(λ) can be found as

c_{3} (λ) \approx \frac{2 (ε_{1} - ε_{3}) ε_{3} exp (- λ w)}{(ε_{1} + ε_{4}) ε_{3} cosh (λ w) + (ε_{3}^{2} + ε_{1} ε_{4}) sinh (λ w)},

(19)

which integrates to

α^{(h)} = \frac{4 π ε_{3}}{w^{2} (ε_{4} - ε_{3})} {Li}_{2} [\frac{(ε_{3} - ε_{1}) (ε_{3} - ε_{4})}{(ε_{3} + ε_{1}) (ε_{3} + ε_{4})}] .

(20)

Again a resonance at ε₁ = −ε₃ is revealed. It should be noted that because of the approximations utilized C₁₁ ≈ S₁₁ ≈ exp[λ (π − w)]/2 and C₁₀ ≈ S₁₀ ≈ exp(λπ)/2 the substitutional symmetry between s₃(λ) and c₃(λ) has disappeared. Eq. (19) cannot be obtained from Eq. (17) by utilizing the simple symmetry stated above. Our results show that, for a cylinder lying on a surface, it is the dielectric constant of the medium above the surface that dictates the resonances of the polarizability. In fact, the resonance condition ε₁ = −ε₃ is identical to that of a cylinder in a homogenous ε₃ surrounding. However, the scaling of the polarizability for the two polarizations are different. For vertical resonances it scales with ε₄ whereas for horizontal resonances it scales with ε₃.

By Taylor expanding the general expression for s₃(λ) [Eqs. (12), (14), and (15)] for λ small we find

s_{3} (λ) \approx \frac{2}{λ} [- \frac{1}{π} + \frac{ε_{3}^{- 1} + ε_{4}^{- 1}}{(ε_{1}^{- 1} + ε_{4}^{- 1}) (π - w) + (ε_{2}^{- 1} + ε_{3}^{- 1}) w}] .

(21)

From this expansion it can be seen that s₃(λ), and therefore also α^(v), has a resonance at the condition

(ε_{1}^{- 1} + ε_{4}^{- 1}) (π - w) + (ε_{2}^{- 1} + ε_{3}^{- 1}) w = 0.

(22)

Note the dependence on w of the resonance condition. For horizontal polarization the resonance condition can be obtained by utilizing the simple symmetry ε_i → 1/ε_i. This yields

(ε_{1} + ε_{4}) (π - w) + (ε_{2} + ε_{3}) w = 0.

(23)

In the general case, for an arbitrary w, the integrals of Eq. (7) cannot be performed analytically. It is only possible in a few special cases. For a half-buried cylinder w = π/2 the results are presented in Ref. [33

J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express 19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

], but e.g. also for w = 2π/3, corresponding to a 3/4 buried cylinder, an analytical result can be obtained. We will not present these rather comprehensive calculations here, but instead note that when the analytical expressions of s₃(λ) and c₃(λ) are given, the integrals of Eq. (7) are straightforward to evaluate using numerical integration. There are no problems with convergence or singularities. In fact, if the integrals over λ are taken from 0 to 10 a fully converged result is obtained, except if w is very small.

3. Results

First, we present calculations of the polarizability of three different configurations using the approach outlined in Sec. 2. We consider (a) a cut cylinder in a homogenous surrounding (ε₁ = ε and ε₂ = ε₃ = ε₄ = ε_h = 1), (b) a cut cylinder on a quartz surface (ε₁ = ε, ε₂ = ε₄ = ε_h = 2.25, and ε₃ = 1), and (c) a full cylinder partly buried in a quartz substrate (ε₁ = ε₂ = ε, ε₄ = 2.25, and ε₃ = 1). In order to identify the resonances, we consider metal-like cylinders with complex dielectric constants that have negative real parts and a small imaginary part. The small imaginary part has been added to prevent singularities at the resonances of the polarizability. Thus, the dielectric constant of the cylinder is in the following calculations given by ε = ε_r + 0.01i, where ε_r is negative. The result for configuration (a) is presented in Fig. 3. The figures to the left display the real (top) and imaginary (bottom) part of the vertical polarizability. The figures to the right display the same, but for the horizontal polarizability. Three different w’s are considered: w = π/3 corresponding to a 3/4 cylinder, w = π/2 a half cylinder, and w = 2π/3 a 1/4 cylinder. For configuration (a) Eqs. (22) and (23) give the following resonance conditions (for vertical and horizontal polarization, respectively)

ε = - ε_{h} \frac{π - w}{π + w} and ε = - ε_{h} \frac{π + w}{π - w} .

(24)

For vertical polarization the three different w’s considered give resonances at ε_r = −1/2, −1/3, and −1/5, and for horizontal polarization we find resonances at ε_r = −2, −3, and −5. All these resonances are clearly seen both in the real and the imaginary part of the polarizability (Fig. 3). For w small a resonance at ε_r = −ε_h = −1 is also expected [c.f. Eqs. (18) and (20)]. For w = π/3 this resonance is visible in the polarizability of both polarizations (Fig. 3). From Fig. 3 it can be seen that the resonance in the vertical polarizability moves towards larger ε_r for an increasing angle w, whereas the resonance in the horizontal polarizability moves towards smaller ε_r. For ordinary plasmonic metals like silver and gold this corresponds to a blue-shift of the resonance in the vertical polarizability and a red-shift in the horizontal. From the presented results it is clear that it is the geometry of the nanowire that dictates the location of the resonance. In fact it is the ratio between the size of the nanowire along the induced dipole moment to the size of the nanowire perpendicular to the induced dipole moment that is important. Thus, for the vertical polarizability it is the height to the width ratio, which is slowly decreasing for an increasing w that accounts for the small blue-shift of the resonance. For the horizontal polarizability it is the width to the height ratio, which is strongly increasing with larger w that accounts for the large red-shift of the resonance.

Fig. 3 Polarizability as a function of ε_r for three differently cut cylinders.

For a cut cylinder on a surface, configuration (b), the calculated polarizability is depicted in Fig. 4. For this configuration the resonance conditions from Eqs. (22) and (23) give

ε = - ε_{h} ε_{3} \frac{π - w}{ε_{3} π + ε_{h} w} and ε = - \frac{ε_{h} π + ε_{3} w}{π - w} .

(25)

For the three w’s and vertical polarization this yields ε_r ≈ −0.86,−0.53, and ε_r = −0.3. For horizontal polarization we expect resonances at ε_r = −3.875, −5.5, and −8.75. These resonances are all clearly seen in the calculated polarizability (Fig. 4). For configuration (b) the resonance at ε = −ε₃ = −1, which is expected for w small [c.f. Eqs. (18) and (20)], is largely visible in both the vertical and horizontal polarizability for w = π/3. Again it can be seen how the resonance in the vertical (horizontal) polarizability blue- (red)-shifts when the angle w increases. As described above, this is due to the changing geometry of the nanowire when w increases. By comparing Fig. 4 to Fig. 3 is can be seen that all the resonances (except for the one fixed at ε_r = −1 in the w = π/3 configuration) are red-shifted. This is because the effective surrounding index that the nanowire feels in the geometry of Fig. 4 is larger than in the geometry of Fig. 3. However, it should be noted that the relative shift of the resonances is very similar in the two configurations.

Fig. 4 Polarizability as a function of ε_r for three differently cut cylinders on a quartz surface.

The polarizability of configuration (c), a partly buried full cylinder, is presented in Fig. 5. In this case, Eqs. (22) and (23) yield

ε = - \frac{π ε_{3} ε_{4}}{ε_{3} (π - w) + ε_{4} w} and ε = - \frac{ε_{4} (π - w) + ε_{3} w}{π} .

(26)

Thus, for the three w’s considered, we expect resonances at ε_r ≈ −1.59, −1.38, and −1.23 and ε_r ≈ −1.83, −1.63, and −1.42 for vertical and horizontal polarization, respectively. All these resonances are clearly seen in the polarizability (Fig. 5). However, the figure reveals that three different resonances come into play: The one determined by Eq. (26), and two others fixed at ε_r = −ε₃ = −1 and ε_r = −ε_h = −2.25. The latter two are identical to the resonances of a full cylinder in a homogenous surrounding described by dielectric constants ε_h = 1 and ε_h = 2.25, respectively. It is clear from the results that the ε_r = −1 resonance is strongest when w is small, i.e when a large part of the cylinder is in the medium 3, whereas the ε_r = −2.25 resonance is strongest for w large, i.e. when the cylinder is largely buried in the substrate. These observations agree nicely with the theory for w very small, which predicts a resonance at ε₁ = −ε₃ = −1, see Eqs. (18) and (20). From the results, in particular the imaginary part of the polarizability, it can also be seen how the effective index of the surrounding medium controls the cutoff between absorption in the blue and the red part of the dielectric spectrum. The full range of absorption is restricted to the dielectric range ε_r ∈ [−2.25,−1] with a gap separating the blue and the red parts. The cutoff controlling the position of this gap clearly reflects the degree of burial of the nanowire. Thus, when most of the nanowire is in air, significant absorption in the blue part of the spectrum is observed. However, as the nanowire moves into the substrate, the large absorption shifts towards the red part of the spectrum. The main results of the three configurations are summarized in Table 1.

Fig. 5 Polarizability as a function of ε_r for three cylinders differently buried in a quartz surface.

Table 1 Summary of the resonance conditions for the nanowire dielectric constant of the three configurations (a), (b), and (c) investigated.

Configuration	w = π/3	w = π/2	w = 2π/3	Resonance condition
(a) vertical	−1/2	−1/3	−1/5	−ε_h(π − w)/(π + w)
(a) horizontal	−2	−3	−5	−ε_h(π + w)/(π − w)
(b) vertical	−0.86	−0.53	−0.30	−ε_hε₃(π − w)/(ε₃π + ε_hw)
(b) horizontal	−3.88	−5.50	−8.75	−(ε_hπ + ε₃w)/(π − w)
(c) vertical	−1.59	−1.38	−1.23	−(πε₃ε₄)/[ε₃(π − w) + ε₄w]
(c) horizontal	−1.83	−1.63	−1.42	−[ε₄(π − w) +ε₃w]/π

Lastly, we have calculated the polarizability in the case of w → 0 taking ε₂ = ε₄ = ε_h, i.e the limit where the geometry resembles a full cylinder lying on a surface. This allows us to use the approximate analytical expressions of Eqs. (18) and (20) to calculate the polarizability. First, we consider a cylinder with a metal-like dielectric constant ε = ε_r + 0.01i, where ε_r is negative. For ε₃ = 1 and three different substrates ε_h = 2.25 (quartz), 5 (silicon nitride), and 11.9 (silicon), the imaginary part of the horizontal polarizability is displayed in Fig. 6 (a). Because the polarizabilities for the two polarizations in this configuration, except for a scaling, are identical, we only present results for the horizontal polarizability. The results show that the imaginary part of the polarizability rises at the resonance ε_r = −1 and vanishes again for ε_r < −ε_h. This is clearly seen from the zoom [inset of Fig. 6 (a)]. Thus, by choosing a substrate with a large dielectric constant, absorption of light in the nanowire is sustained over a relatively broad range of wavelengths. This is more clearly seen in Fig. 6 (b), where we have calculated the imaginary part of the horizontal polarizability versus the photon energy of a silver nanowire on different substrates using a dielectric constant for silver taken from the experiments of Johnson and Christy [37

P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, “Optical constants of the noble metals,” Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370–4379 (1972). [CrossRef]

]. Note how the low-frequency tail of the resonance broadens as the dielectric constant of the substrate increases. On the high-frequency side of the resonance the effect of interband absorption in the silver is seen. Lastly it should be noted, that nanocylinders on surfaces have been analyzed before using numerical analysis [38

J. R. Arias-Gonzalez and M. Nieto-Vesperinas, “Resonant near-field eigenmodes of nanocylinders on flat surfaces under both homogenous and inhomogenous lightwave excitation,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 657–665 (2001). [CrossRef]

] and more recently transformation optics [39

A. Aubry, D. Y. Lei, S. A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry, “Plasmonic hybridization between nanowires and a metallic surface: a transformation optics approach,” ACS Nano 5 3293–3308 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. Compared to the full approaches of Refs. [38

, 39

] the approximate polarizabilities of Eqs. (18) and (20) are easy to evaluate in that they only involve the calculation of a single polylogarithm.

Fig. 6 Imaginary part of the horizontal polarizability for a full cylinder lying on three different surfaces. (a) versus ε_r and (b) versus the photon energy. In (a), we use ε = ε_r + 0.01i and in (b) we use a dielectric constant for silver taken from the experiments of Ref. [37

P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, “Optical constants of the noble metals,” Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370–4379 (1972). [CrossRef]

4. Conclusion

The electrostatic polarizability of a general geometry consisting of two nanowire segments forming a cylinder that can be arbitrarily buried in a substrate is derived in a semi-analytical approach using bipolar coordinates, cosine-, and sine-transformations. From the derived expressions we have calculated the polarizability of four important metal nanowire geometries: (1) a cut cylinder in a homogenous surrounding, (2) a cut cylinder on a surface, (3) a full cylinder partly buried in a substrate, and (4) a cylinder lying on a surface. Our results give physical insight into the interplay between the multiple resonances of the polarizability of metal nanowire geometries at surfaces, and provide an exact, fast, and easy scheme for optimizing metal nanowire structures for various applications within plasmonics.

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the project “Localized-surface plasmons and silicon thin-film solar cells - PLATOS” financed by the Villum foundation.

References and links

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2.	L. Novotny and B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-optics (Cambridge 2006).
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5.	W. A. Murray and W. L. Barnes, “Plasmonic materials,” Adv. Mater. 19, 3771–3782 (2007). [CrossRef]
6.	S. Lal, S. Link, and N. J. Halas, “Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding,” Nat. Photonics 1, 641–648 (2007). [CrossRef]
7.	M. Moskovits, “Surface-enhanced spectroscopy,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 57, 783–826 (1985). [CrossRef]
8.	Y. C. Coa, R. Jin, and C. A. Mirkin, “Nanoparticles with Raman spectroscopic fingerprints for DNA and RNA detection,” Science 297, 1536–1540 (2002). [CrossRef]
9.	A. J. Haes and R. P. V. Duyne, “A nanoscale optical biosensor: sensitivity and selectivity of an approach based on the localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of triangular silver nanoparticles,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 10596–10604 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
10.	K. R. Catchpole and A. Polman, “Plasmonic solar cells,” Opt. Express 16, 21793–21800 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
11.	H. A. Atwater and A. Polman, “Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices,” Nat. Mater. 9, 205–213 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
12.	V. E. Ferry, J. N. Munday, and H. A. Atwater, “Design considerations for plasmonic photovoltaics,” Adv. Mater. 22, 4794–4808 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
13.	L. Lorenz, “Lysbevægelsen i og udenfor en af plane lysbølger belyst kugle,” K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 6, 1–62 (1890).
14.	G. Mie, “Beitrage zur optik truber medien speziell kolloidaler metallosungen,” Ann. Physik. 330, 337–445 (1908). [CrossRef]
15.	C. F. Bohren and D. R. Huffman, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Wiley, 1983).
16.	L. Rayleigh, “The dispersal of light by a dielectric cylinder,” Phil. Mag. 36, 365–376 (1918).
17.	J. R. Wait, “Scattering of a plane wave from a circular cylinder at oblique incidence,” Can. J. Phys. 33, 189–195 (1955). [CrossRef]
18.	A. Taflove and S. Hagness, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Artech House, 2000).
19.	J. Jin, The Finite Element Method in Electrodynamics (Wiley, 2002).
20.	T. Søndergaard, “Modeling of plasmonic nanostructures: Green’s function integral equation methods,” Phys. Status Solidi B 244, 3448–3462 (2007). [CrossRef]
21.	O. J. F. Martin, C. Girard, and A. Dereux, “Generalized field propagator for electromagnetic scattering and light confinement,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 526–529 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
22.	F. J. Garcia de Abajo and A. Howie, “Retarded field calculation of electron energy loss in inhomogenous dielectrics,” Phys. Rev. B 65, 115418 (2002). [CrossRef]
23.	J. Jung, T. G. Pedersen, T. Søndergaard, K. Pedersen, A. N. Larsen, and B. B. Nielsen, “Electrostatic plasmon resonances of metal nanospheres in layered geometries,” Phys. Rev. B 81, 125413 (2010). [CrossRef]
24.	F. Hallermann, C. Rockstuhl, S. Fahr, G. Seifert, S. Wackerow, H. Graener, G. V. Plessen, and F. Lederer, “On the use of localized plasmon polaritons in solar cells,” Phys. Status Solidi A 205, 2844–2861 (2008). [CrossRef]
25.	J. W. Yoon, W. J. Park, K. J. Lee, S. H. Song, and R. Magnusson, “Surface-plasmon mediated total absorption of light into silicon,” Opt. Express 19, 20673–20680 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
26.	P. C. Waterman, “Surface fields and the T matrix,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 2968–2977 (1999). [CrossRef]
27.	A. V. Radchik, A. V. Paley, G. B. Smith, and A. V. Vagov, “Polarization and resonant absorption in intersecting cylinders and spheres,” J. Appl. Phys. 76, 4827–4835 (1994). [CrossRef]
28.	A. Salandrino, A. Alu, and N. Engheta, “Parallel, series, and intermediate interconnects of optical nanocircuit elements. 1. Analytical solution,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 3007–3013 (2007). [CrossRef]
29.	M Pitkonen, “A closed-form solution for the polarizability of a dielectric double half-cylinder,” J. Electromagn. Waves Appl. 24, 1267–1277 (2010). [CrossRef]
30.	H. Kettunen, H. Wallen, and A. Sihvola, “Polarizability of a dielectic hemisphere,” J. Appl. Phys. 102, 044105 (2007). [CrossRef]
31.	Y. Luo, J. B. Pendry, and A. Aubry, “Surface plasmons and singularities,” Nano Lett. 10, 4186–4191 (2010). [CrossRef]
32.	Y. Luo, A. Aubry, and J. B. Pendry, “Electromagnetic contribution to surface-enhanced Raman scattering from rough metal surfaces: a transformation optics approach,” Phys. Rev. B 83, 155422 (2011). [CrossRef]
33.	J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express 19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
34.	P. M. Morse and H. Feshbach, Methods of Theoretical Physics, Part II (McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., 1953).
35.	H. E. Lockwood, A Book of Curves (Cambridge University Press, 1963).
36.	A. Jonquiere, “Note sur la serie $\sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n}}{n^{s}}$ ,” Bulletin de la Socit Mathmatique de France 17, 142–152 (1889).
37.	P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, “Optical constants of the noble metals,” Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370–4379 (1972). [CrossRef]
38.	J. R. Arias-Gonzalez and M. Nieto-Vesperinas, “Resonant near-field eigenmodes of nanocylinders on flat surfaces under both homogenous and inhomogenous lightwave excitation,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 657–665 (2001). [CrossRef]
39.	A. Aubry, D. Y. Lei, S. A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry, “Plasmonic hybridization between nanowires and a metallic surface: a transformation optics approach,” ACS Nano 5 3293–3308 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

OCIS Codes
(000.3860) General : Mathematical methods in physics
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons

ToC Category:
Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: October 28, 2011
Revised Manuscript: December 12, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: January 27, 2012
Published: January 31, 2012

Citation
Jesper Jung and Thomas G. Pedersen, "Polarizability of nanowires at surfaces: exact solution for general geometry," Opt. Express 20, 3663-3674 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-4-3663

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References

S. A. Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (Springer, 2007).
L. Novotny and B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-optics (Cambridge2006).
A. V. Zayats and I. I. Smolyaninov, “Near-field photonics: surface plasmon polaritons and localized surface plasmons,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.5, S16–S50 (2003). [CrossRef]
S. A. Maier and H. A. Atwater, “Plasmonics: localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures,” J. Appl. Phys.98, 011101 (2005). [CrossRef]
W. A. Murray and W. L. Barnes, “Plasmonic materials,” Adv. Mater.19, 3771–3782 (2007). [CrossRef]
S. Lal, S. Link, and N. J. Halas, “Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding,” Nat. Photonics1, 641–648 (2007). [CrossRef]
M. Moskovits, “Surface-enhanced spectroscopy,” Rev. Mod. Phys.57, 783–826 (1985). [CrossRef]
Y. C. Coa, R. Jin, and C. A. Mirkin, “Nanoparticles with Raman spectroscopic fingerprints for DNA and RNA detection,” Science297, 1536–1540 (2002). [CrossRef]
A. J. Haes and R. P. V. Duyne, “A nanoscale optical biosensor: sensitivity and selectivity of an approach based on the localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of triangular silver nanoparticles,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.124, 10596–10604 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. R. Catchpole and A. Polman, “Plasmonic solar cells,” Opt. Express16, 21793–21800 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
H. A. Atwater and A. Polman, “Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices,” Nat. Mater.9, 205–213 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
V. E. Ferry, J. N. Munday, and H. A. Atwater, “Design considerations for plasmonic photovoltaics,” Adv. Mater.22, 4794–4808 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. Lorenz, “Lysbevægelsen i og udenfor en af plane lysbølger belyst kugle,” K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr.6, 1–62 (1890).
G. Mie, “Beitrage zur optik truber medien speziell kolloidaler metallosungen,” Ann. Physik.330, 337–445 (1908). [CrossRef]
C. F. Bohren and D. R. Huffman, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Wiley, 1983).
L. Rayleigh, “The dispersal of light by a dielectric cylinder,” Phil. Mag.36, 365–376 (1918).
J. R. Wait, “Scattering of a plane wave from a circular cylinder at oblique incidence,” Can. J. Phys.33, 189–195 (1955). [CrossRef]
A. Taflove and S. Hagness, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Artech House, 2000).
J. Jin, The Finite Element Method in Electrodynamics (Wiley, 2002).
T. Søndergaard, “Modeling of plasmonic nanostructures: Green’s function integral equation methods,” Phys. Status Solidi B244, 3448–3462 (2007). [CrossRef]
O. J. F. Martin, C. Girard, and A. Dereux, “Generalized field propagator for electromagnetic scattering and light confinement,” Phys. Rev. Lett.74, 526–529 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
F. J. Garcia de Abajo and A. Howie, “Retarded field calculation of electron energy loss in inhomogenous dielectrics,” Phys. Rev. B65, 115418 (2002). [CrossRef]
J. Jung, T. G. Pedersen, T. Søndergaard, K. Pedersen, A. N. Larsen, and B. B. Nielsen, “Electrostatic plasmon resonances of metal nanospheres in layered geometries,” Phys. Rev. B81, 125413 (2010). [CrossRef]
F. Hallermann, C. Rockstuhl, S. Fahr, G. Seifert, S. Wackerow, H. Graener, G. V. Plessen, and F. Lederer, “On the use of localized plasmon polaritons in solar cells,” Phys. Status Solidi A205, 2844–2861 (2008). [CrossRef]
J. W. Yoon, W. J. Park, K. J. Lee, S. H. Song, and R. Magnusson, “Surface-plasmon mediated total absorption of light into silicon,” Opt. Express19, 20673–20680 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
P. C. Waterman, “Surface fields and the T matrix,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A16, 2968–2977 (1999). [CrossRef]
A. V. Radchik, A. V. Paley, G. B. Smith, and A. V. Vagov, “Polarization and resonant absorption in intersecting cylinders and spheres,” J. Appl. Phys.76, 4827–4835 (1994). [CrossRef]
A. Salandrino, A. Alu, and N. Engheta, “Parallel, series, and intermediate interconnects of optical nanocircuit elements. 1. Analytical solution,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B24, 3007–3013 (2007). [CrossRef]
M Pitkonen, “A closed-form solution for the polarizability of a dielectric double half-cylinder,” J. Electromagn. Waves Appl.24, 1267–1277 (2010). [CrossRef]
H. Kettunen, H. Wallen, and A. Sihvola, “Polarizability of a dielectic hemisphere,” J. Appl. Phys.102, 044105 (2007). [CrossRef]
Y. Luo, J. B. Pendry, and A. Aubry, “Surface plasmons and singularities,” Nano Lett.10, 4186–4191 (2010). [CrossRef]
Y. Luo, A. Aubry, and J. B. Pendry, “Electromagnetic contribution to surface-enhanced Raman scattering from rough metal surfaces: a transformation optics approach,” Phys. Rev. B83, 155422 (2011). [CrossRef]
J. Jung and T. G. Pedersen, “Exact polarizability and plasmon resonances of partly buried nanowires,” Opt. Express19, 22775–22785 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
P. M. Morse and H. Feshbach, Methods of Theoretical Physics, Part II (McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., 1953).
H. E. Lockwood, A Book of Curves (Cambridge University Press, 1963).
A. Jonquiere, “Note sur la serie ∑n=1∞xnns,” Bulletin de la Socit Mathmatique de France17, 142–152 (1889).
P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, “Optical constants of the noble metals,” Phys. Rev. B6, 4370–4379 (1972). [CrossRef]
J. R. Arias-Gonzalez and M. Nieto-Vesperinas, “Resonant near-field eigenmodes of nanocylinders on flat surfaces under both homogenous and inhomogenous lightwave excitation,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A18, 657–665 (2001). [CrossRef]
A. Aubry, D. Y. Lei, S. A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry, “Plasmonic hybridization between nanowires and a metallic surface: a transformation optics approach,” ACS Nano53293–3308 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

ACS Nano

A. Aubry, D. Y. Lei, S. A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry, “Plasmonic hybridization between nanowires and a metallic surface: a transformation optics approach,” ACS Nano53293–3308 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Adv. Mater.

W. A. Murray and W. L. Barnes, “Plasmonic materials,” Adv. Mater.19, 3771–3782 (2007). [CrossRef]
V. E. Ferry, J. N. Munday, and H. A. Atwater, “Design considerations for plasmonic photovoltaics,” Adv. Mater.22, 4794–4808 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Ann. Physik.

G. Mie, “Beitrage zur optik truber medien speziell kolloidaler metallosungen,” Ann. Physik.330, 337–445 (1908). [CrossRef]

Bulletin de la Socit Mathmatique de France

A. Jonquiere, “Note sur la serie ∑n=1∞xnns,” Bulletin de la Socit Mathmatique de France17, 142–152 (1889).

Can. J. Phys.

J. R. Wait, “Scattering of a plane wave from a circular cylinder at oblique incidence,” Can. J. Phys.33, 189–195 (1955). [CrossRef]

J. Am. Chem. Soc.

A. J. Haes and R. P. V. Duyne, “A nanoscale optical biosensor: sensitivity and selectivity of an approach based on the localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of triangular silver nanoparticles,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.124, 10596–10604 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

J. Appl. Phys.

S. A. Maier and H. A. Atwater, “Plasmonics: localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures,” J. Appl. Phys.98, 011101 (2005). [CrossRef]
A. V. Radchik, A. V. Paley, G. B. Smith, and A. V. Vagov, “Polarization and resonant absorption in intersecting cylinders and spheres,” J. Appl. Phys.76, 4827–4835 (1994). [CrossRef]
H. Kettunen, H. Wallen, and A. Sihvola, “Polarizability of a dielectic hemisphere,” J. Appl. Phys.102, 044105 (2007). [CrossRef]

J. Electromagn. Waves Appl.

M Pitkonen, “A closed-form solution for the polarizability of a dielectric double half-cylinder,” J. Electromagn. Waves Appl.24, 1267–1277 (2010). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.

A. V. Zayats and I. I. Smolyaninov, “Near-field photonics: surface plasmon polaritons and localized surface plasmons,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.5, S16–S50 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

A. Salandrino, A. Alu, and N. Engheta, “Parallel, series, and intermediate interconnects of optical nanocircuit elements. 1. Analytical solution,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B24, 3007–3013 (2007). [CrossRef]

K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr.

L. Lorenz, “Lysbevægelsen i og udenfor en af plane lysbølger belyst kugle,” K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr.6, 1–62 (1890).

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