Research Article

Plasmonic Modes and Optical Properties of Gold and Silver Ellipsoidal Nanoparticles by the Discrete Dipole Approximation

Figure 3

The dependency of the absorption efficiency on the rotation angle for (a) Au and (b) Ag ellipsoidal nanoparticles. The corresponding structural parameters are 2a = 40 nm, 2b = 20 nm and 2c = 10 nm.
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