Octupolar metal nanoparticles as optically driven, coherently controlled nanorotors

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 130-135

  Stockman, Mark I ^a,b   Li, Kuiru ^b   Brasselet, Sophie ^a   Zyss, Joseph ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; METALS; ROTORS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOROTORS; OCTUPOLAR SYMMETRY; TETRAHEDRAL CLUSTERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33845313317     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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