Spectral response of plasmon resonant nanoparticles with a non-regular shape

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 213-219

  Kottmann, Jörg P ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^a   Smith, David R ^b   Schultz, Sheldon ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROOPTICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NANOSCIENCE; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION (SCS); SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0000586151     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000213     Document Type: Article

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