A silver bullet to beat cancer?
(University of Leeds) The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Dipole, quadrupole and octupole plasmon resonance modes in non-concentric nanocrescent/nanodisk structure: local field enhancement in the visible and near infrared regions
By deviating the nanodisk from the center in the silver nanocrescent/nanodisk structure, we find that the dipole, quadrupole and octupole modes can all induce very high local electric field enhancement (LFE, more than 750) for the coupling of nanocrescent and crescent gap modes, which makes the ... (Source: Optics Express)