One-click electromagnetism at the nanoscale

Two spheroids

Questions & answers

What is the field in the gap between two nanorods?

Placed tip to tip, two rods couple their longitudinal plasmons: the gap field becomes much stronger than at a single tip, and the coupled resonance red-shifts as the gap closes.

Is it exact?

Yes: the two spheroids are coupled through their T-matrices with exact translation of the multipole fields.

Which arrangements can I compute?

Choose the arrangement of the two rods relative to each other and to the incoming light; tip-to-tip gives the strongest gap field, side-by-side a blue-shifted mode.

Gap hot spots between two nanorods, from an exact coupled T-matrix, in one click.