Controlling optical responses through local dielectric resonance in nanometre metallic clusters

Optical responses in dilute composites are controlled through the local dielectric resonance of metallic clusters. We consider two located metallic clusters close to each other with admittances ε 1 and ε 2 . Through varying the difference admittance ratio η[ = (ε 2 −ε 0 )/(ε 1 −ε 0 )], we find that their optical responses are determined by the local resonance. There is a blueshift of absorption peaks with the increase of η. Simultaneously, it is known that the absorption peaks will be redshifted by enlarging the cluster size. By adjusting the nano-metallic cluster geometry, size and admittances, we can control the positions and intensities of absorption peaks effectively. We have also deduced the effective linear optical responses of three-component composites ε e = ε 0 (1+∑ n = 1 n s [(γ n 1 +ηγ n 2 )/(ε 0 ( s − s n ))]), and the sum rule of cross sections: ∑ n = 1 n s (γ n 1 +ηγ n 2 ) = N h 1 + N h 2 , where N h 1 and N h 2 are the numbers of ε 1 and ε 2 bonds along the electric field, respectively. These results may be beneficial to the study of surface plasmon resonances on a nanometre scale.