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Enhanced surface-plasmon resonance absorption in metal–dielectric–metal layered microspheres

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Abstract

We present a theoretical study of the dispersion relation of surface-plasmon resonances of mesoscopic metal–dielectric–metal microspheres. By analyzing the solutions to Maxwell’s equations, we obtain a simple geometric condition for which the system exhibits a band of surface-plasmon modes whose resonant frequencies are weakly dependent on the multipole number. Using a modified Mie calculation, we find that a large number of modes belonging to this flat-dispersion band can be excited simultaneously by a plane wave, thus enhancing the absorption cross section. We demonstrate that the enhanced absorption peak of the sphere is geometrically tunable over the entire visible range.

© 2006 Optical Society of America

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