title: A Source-Model Technique for analysis of wave guiding along chains of metallic nanowires in layered media.
abstract: A method for determining the modes that can be guided along infinite chains of metallic nanowires when they are embedded, as in most realistic set-ups, in layered media is presented. The method is based on a rigorous full-wave frequency-domain Source-Model Technique (SMT). The method allows efficient determination of the complex propagation constants and the surface-plasmon type modal fields. Sample results are presented for silver nanowires with circular and triangle-like cross-sections lying in an air-Si-glass layered structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Szafranek
authors.forename: Yehuda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Leviatan
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D008027:Light; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*