Table 1. Plasmonic Waveguide Properties of Different Plasmonic Modes (Transverse Mode: 2.42 eV and Longitudinal Modes: >2.42 eV; Effective Mode Size Describes the Radial Drop of the Integrated E² perpendicular to the Particle Chains to 1/e²).

excitation energy, eV	2.42	2.07	1.89	1.79	1.70	1.59	1.47
integrated E02 (x0 = 0 nm)	1071	1513	1925	1758	1679	1519	1171
integrated EN2 (xN = 1380 nm)	<0.01	<0.01	0.06	28	218	284	114
damping in decibels per 1380 nm	–50.4	–56.2	–45.0	–17.9	–8.8	–7.2	–10.1
damping in decibels per 50 nm	–1.83	–2.04	–1.63	–0.65	–0.32	–0.26	–0.37
effective mode energy, eV	8.86	4.43	4.13	2.82	2.58	2.07	1.70
effective mode size, nm	137	141	145	173	198	229	261