Substrate influence on the plasmonic response of clusters of spherical nanoparticles

[摘要] The plasmonic response of nanoparticles is exploited in many subfields of science and engineering to enhance optical signals associated with probes of nanoscale and subnanoscale entities. We develop a numerical algorithm based on previous theoretical work that addresses the influence of a substrate on the plasmonic response of collections of nanoparticles of spherical shape. Our method is a real-space approach within the quasistatic limit that can be applied to a wide range of structures. We illustrate the role of the substrate through numerical calculations that explore single nanospheres and nanosphere dimers fabricated from either a Drude model metal or from silver on dielectric substrates and from dielectric spheres on silver substrates.

[关键词] RAMAN-SCATTERING;ABSORPTION;PARTICLES;SPECTROSCOPY;ENHANCEMENT;MODES