Direct measurement of the single-metal-cluster optical absorption

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Arbouet, A ^a   Christofilos, D ^a   Del Fatti, N ^a   Vallee F ^a   Huntzinger, J R ^b   Arnaud, L ^b   Billaud, P ^b   Broyer, M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DISPERSION (WAVES); GOLD; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; LUMINESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOMATERIALS; OPTICAL DOMAINS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL TECHNIQUES;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 19644377830     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.127401     Document Type: Article

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