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Contents<br />
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2.5 Practical Aspects of DDA Simulations 113<br />
2.5.1 General Applicability 113<br />
2.5.2 System Requirements 114<br />
2.5.3 Free Parameters 115<br />
2.5.4 Available Codes 117<br />
2.6 Accuracy of the DDA 119<br />
3 Size and Shape Dependence of Localized Surface Plasmon<br />
Resonances 137<br />
S. D’Agostino<br />
3.1 Introduction 138<br />
3.2 Size Dependence 139<br />
3.2.1 Small Nanoparticles and Surface Damping 139<br />
3.2.2 Large Nanoparticles and Higher-Order Modes 140<br />
3.3 Shape Dependence 144<br />
3.3.1 Radially Symmetric Nanoparticles 144<br />
3.3.1.1 Ellipsoids and spheroids 144<br />
3.3.1.2 Cylinders and disks 146<br />
3.3.2 Prisms and Finite-Number Facets<br />
Nanoparticles 148<br />
3.3.2.1 Cubes 148<br />
3.3.2.2 Triangular prisms 150<br />
3.3.3 Polyhedral Nanoparticles 152<br />
3.3.3.1 Truncated cubes 152<br />
3.3.3.2 Rounded, regular and marks<br />
decahedral nanoparticles 153<br />
3.3.4 Multi-Tips Objects 156<br />
3.3.4.1 Stars 156<br />
3.3.4.2 Urchins-like nanoparticles 157<br />
3.3.5 Void Nanoparticles 161<br />
3.3.5.1 Nanoshells 161<br />
3.3.5.2 Void cubes 164<br />
3.4 Conclusions 165<br />
4 Computational Molecular Photophysics 175<br />
E. Fabiano<br />
4.1 Introduction 175<br />
4.2 Electronic Excitations 177