Local-field enhancement and plasmon tuning in bimetallic nanoplanets

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10097-10102

  Pellegrini, Giovanni ^a   Bello, Valentina ^a   Mattei, Giovanni ^a   Mazzoldi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMETALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD ALLOYS; PLASMONS; TUNING;

BIMETALLIC NANOPLANETS; LOCAL-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PLASMON TUNING;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 34547753028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010097     Document Type: Article

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