Orientation-averaged light scattering by nanoparticle clusters: Far-field and near-field benchmarks of numerical cubature methods

Generalised coupled-dipole model for core-satellite nanostructures

“…(b) GCDM calculations for a fully-covered spherical core, with varying numbers of satellites. Spectra were calculated using numerical orientation averaging 48 for the incident light. Correspondences of the number of satellites and their minimal inter-satellite separation are as follows: N sat = 101, s ≈ 6.2 nm; N sat = 201, s ≈ 3.2 nm; N sat = 301, s ≈ 1.9 nm; N sat = 401, s ≈ 1.1 nm.…”