Enhancement of third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities in silica-capped Au nanoparticle films with very high concentrations

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4938-4940

  Hamanaka, Y ^a,b   Fukuta, K ^a,b   Nakamura, A ^a,b   Liz Marzan L M ^c   Mulvaney, P ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC ACIDS; SILICA; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VOLUME FRACTION;

CONDUCTING ELECTRONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES (NP); NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 3042733127     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1760229     Document Type: Article

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