Plasmonic optical properties of a single gold nano-rod

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7132-7139

  Huang, Hung Ji ^a   Yu, Chin Ping ^a   Chang, Hung Chun ^a   Chiu, Kuo Pin ^a   Chen, Hao Ming ^a   Liu, Ru Shi ^a   Tsai, Din Ping ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONIC OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION CONTRAST MICROSCOPY;

NANORODS;

EID: 34250202910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007132     Document Type: Article

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