The Albedo of Metallic Nanoparticles Computed from FDTD

Abstract

This manuscript presents the albedo, a measure of a nanoparticles light retention capability, for silver, aluminum, gold, chromium, copper, nickel and titanium throughout the visible spectrum. Lumerical’s finite-difference time-domain Maxwell’s equation solver was employed to analyze how light of various angles and polarizations interacts with such materials in three dimensions. All of the particles in this study are 50 nm in radius.