Ultrafast third-order nonlinearity of silver nanospheres and nanodiscs

Nanotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 31, 2007, Pages

  Jayabalan, J ^a   Singh, Asha ^a   Chari, Rama ^a   Oak, Shrikant M ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; SILVER; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NANODISCS; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY;

NANOSPHERES;

NANOSPHERE; SILVER;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLLOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 34547105297     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/18/31/315704     Document Type: Article

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