Plasmon resonances of a gold nanostar

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 729-732

  Hao, Feng ^a   Nehl, Colleen L ^a   Hafner, Jason H ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; GOLD; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

HYBRIDIZATION; NANOSCALE ANTENNAS; NANOSTARS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 34047141267     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl062969c     Document Type: Article

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