Aligned silver nanoparticles on rippled silicon templates exhibiting anisotropic plasmon absorption

Plasmonics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 47-50

  Oates, Thomas W H ^a   Keller, Adrian ^a   Facsko, Stefan ^a   Mücklich, Arndt ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Island films; Plasmon coupling; Self alignment; Self organization; SERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547363191     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-007-9025-z     Document Type: Article

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