Substrate effect on refractive index dependence of plasmon resonance for individual silver nanoparticles observed using darkfield microspectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2668-2677

  Curry, A ^a   Nusz, G ^a   Chilkoti, A ^a   Wax, A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLASS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILVER; SUBSTRATES;

DARKFIELD MICRO-SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMON RESONANCE; SILANATED GLASS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 21244465940     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002668     Document Type: Article

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