Toroidal dipole induced transparency for core-shell nanoparticles

Abstract: We investigate the scattering properties of spherical nanoparticles by employing a Cartesian multipole expansion method which has incorporated radiating toroidal multipoles. It is shown that toroidal dipoles, which are negligible under long-wavelength approximations, can be excited within high-permittivity dielectric nanoparticles and significantly influence the scattering profile in the optical regime. We further reveal that the scattering transparencies of core-shell plasmonic nanoparticles can be classified into two categories: i) the trivial transparency with no effective multipole excitations within the particle, and ii) the non-trivial one induced by the destructive interferences of induced electric and toroidal multipoles. The incorporation of toroidal moments offers new insights into the study into nanoparticle scattering in both the near- and far-fields, which may shed new light to many related applications, such as biosensing, nanoantennas, photovoltaic devices and so on.