Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Optical Forces in Silver Nanoaggregates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Xu, Hongxing ^a   Käll, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

OPTICAL FORCES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0037049528     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.246802     Document Type: Article

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