Figure 2.

Amplitude of the electric field in a cross section through the plasmonic nanocomposite (between z = 0 nm and z = 20 nm). The incident linearly polarized plane wave propagates in the +z-direction. The plasmonic nanocomposite has a filling fraction of 20% and consists of randomly arranged non-touching silver nanospheres with a diameter of 4.1 nm embedded in a generic mondisperse dielectric material (ϵ = 2.25). The amplitude is shown at an incident wavelength of 430 nm.