Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an alternative representation of the electromagnetic field scattered from a homogeneous sphere coated with a homogeneous layer of uniform thickness. Specifically, we expand the scattered field using a set of modes that are independent of the permittivity of the coating, while the expansion coefficients are simple rational functions of the permittivity. The theory we develop represents both a framework for the analysis of plasmonic and photonic modes and a straightforward methodology to design the permittivity of the coating to pursue a prescribed tailoring of the scattered field. To illustrate the practical implications of this method, we design the permittivity of the coating to zero either the backscattering or a prescribed multipolar order of the scattered field, and to maximize an electric field component in a given point of space.

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