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Phys. Rev. B 71, 085416 (2005) [7 pages]

Improved analytical fit of gold dispersion: Application to the modeling of extinction spectra with a finite-difference time-domain method

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Alexandre Vial*, Anne-Sophie Grimault, Demetrio Macías, Dominique Barchiesi, and Marc Lamy de la Chapelle
Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d’Instrumentation Optique - CNRS FRE 2671, Université de Technologie de Troyes, 12 rue Marie Curie, BP-2060 F-10010 Troyes Cedex, France

Received 13 July 2004; revised 14 October 2004; published 23 February 2005

We propose an accurate description for the dispersion of gold in the range of 1.24–2.48 eV. We implement this improved model in an FDTD algorithm and evaluate its efficiency by comparison with an analytical method. Extinction spectra of gold nanoparticle arrays are then calculated.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.085416
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.71.085416
PACS:
41.20.Jb, 42.25.Bs, 77.22.Ch, 78.20.Ci

*Electronic address: alexandre.vial@utt.fr