Controlling light with light via structural transformations in metallic nanoparticles

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 371-375

  MacDonald, Kevin F ^a   Soares, Bruno F ^a   Bashevoy, Maxim V ^a   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Southampton ^*

^c EPSRC Nanophotonics Portfolio Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gallium; Nanotechnology; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Structural transformations

Indexed keywords

METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONIC SWITCHING DEVICES; SOLID-LIQUID TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

GALLIUM; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33745044003     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.872052     Document Type: Article

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