Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 7, Issue 45, Pages 18897-18901Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr05468k
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- Australian Research Council
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (Mexico)
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-57-45141 IND_a]
- Government of the Russian Federation [074-U01]
- President of the Russian Federation [MD-7841.2015.2]
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Nanoparticles have a fundamental limit as to how much light they can absorb. This limit is based on the finite number of modes excited in the nanoparticle at a given wavelength and maximum absorption capacity per mode. The enhanced absorption can be achieved when each mode supported by the nanoparticle absorbs light up to the maximum capacity. Using a stochastic optimization algorithm, we design multilayer nanoparticles, in which we can make several resonant modes overlap at the same frequency resulting in superabsorption. We further introduce the efficiency of the absorption for a nanoparticle, which is the absorption normalized by the physical size of the particle, and show that efficient absorbers do not always operate in the superabsorption regime.
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