Metal nanoshells are nanoscale optical components that allow for the controllable redirection of electromagnetic radiation via careful engineering of their multilayer structures. By varying the core size and shell thickness of these nanoparticles, nanoscale “antennas” are constructed that can be selectively driven into a dipolar or quadrupolar oscillation pattern. With scattering cross sections many times larger than their physical cross section, these antennas efficiently couple to the incident electromagnetic wave. These structures can focus, redirect, or split the incident light with subwavelength precision, and may find useful applications in the remote coupling of electromagnetic signals into nanoscale machines or devices.
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