Super scattering phenomenon in active spherical nanoparticles*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174222 and 91230203).

Liu Chang-Yu1, Xie Ya-Ming2, 3, Wang Zhi-Guo1, †
       

(color online) 2D pseudocolor plots of (logarithm–ic scale) for spherical nanoparticles as functions of and with (a) and (c) . Here the radius of particle is R = 65.1 nm. The dashed-dotted lines in panels (a) and (c) denote these points where the real parts of permittivities are zero. The optical cross sections and Mie coefficients each as a function of for spherical nanoparticles with (b) , , and (d) , . Abbreviations for resonances: , magnetic dipole; , magnetic quadrupole; , magnetic octupole.