The problem of the diffraction of the field of a plane electromagnetic wave by a metal nanocylinder with an arbitrary cross section is considered. Based on the discrete-source method, a comparative analysis of both frequency and spatial scattering characteristics is performed taking the nonlocal effect into account. It is found that nonlocality produces a substantial effect on the scattering characteristics. It is demonstrated that the use of the Drude model for a refractive index of plasmonic particles in the ultraviolet region may lead to erroneous results.
$^1$Department of Department of Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics;
$^2$Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia. E-mail:
Science News of the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
This new information publication, which is intended to convey to the staff, students and graduate students, faculty colleagues and partners of the main achievements of scientists and scientific information on the events in the life of university physicists.