Chirality arising from small defects in gold nanoparticle arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 950-955

  Canfield, Brian K ^a   Kujala, Sami ^a   Laiho, Kaisa ^a   Jefimovs, Konstantins ^b   Turunen, Jari ^b   Kauranen, Martti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

CHIRAL SIGNATURES; METAL NANOSTRUCTURES; SMALL SCALE DEFECTS; SYMMETRY BREAKING;

ARRAYS;

EID: 31144453943     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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