Decay times of surface plasmon excitation in metal nanoparticles by persistent spectral hole burning

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5644-5647

  Stietz, F ^a   Bosbach, J ^a   Wenzel, T ^a   Vartanyan, T ^a   Goldmann, A ^a   Trager F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; HOLE TRAPS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SILVER; SUBSTRATES;

DECAY TIMES; HOLE BURNING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON EXCITATION; TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATES;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

EID: 0033700789     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5644     Document Type: Article

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