Low-energy acoustic plasmons at metal surfaces

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7149, 2007, Pages 57-59

  Diaconescu, Bogdan ^a   Pohl, Karsten ^a   Vattuone, Luca ^b   Savio, Letizia ^b   Hofmann, Philip ^c   Silkin, Vyacheslav M ^d   Pitarke, Jose M ^e   Chulkov, Eugene V ^d   Echenique, Pedro M ^d   Farías, Daniel ^f   Rocca, Mario ^b  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^e CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DENSITY; INVERSION LAYER; METAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMA; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVE ENERGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DISPERSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TWO DIMENSIONAL PLASMON;

EID: 34447268435     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05975     Document Type: Article

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