Nonlinear optical absorption and switching properties of gold nanoparticle doped SiO 2-TiO 2 sol-gel films

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1990-1994

  Venkatram, N ^a   Sai Santosh Kumar, R ^a   Narayana Rao, D ^a   Medda, S K ^b   De, Sucheta ^b   De, Goutam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Optical Switching; Reverse Saturable Absorption; Saturable Absorption; Surface Plasmon Resonance

Indexed keywords

AU NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL ABSORPTION; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); GOLD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOL-GELS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 33750197369     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2006.319     Document Type: Article

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