Melting-Induced Enhancement of the Second-Harmonic Generation from Metal Nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Malvezzi, A M ^a   Allione, M ^a   Patrini, M ^a   Stella, A ^a   Cheyssac, P ^b   Kofman, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; GALLIUM; LASER PULSES; MELTING; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SILICA; SOLIDIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIELECTRIC FUNCTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; FREE-ELECTRON DENSITY; LINEAR REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR TRANSMITTANCE; SOLID-TO-LIQUID PHASE TRANSITIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0037135849     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.087401     Document Type: Article

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