Detection and spectroscopy of gold nanoparticles using supercontinuum white light confocal microscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Lindfors, K ^a,b   Kalkbrenner, T ^a,c   Stoller, P ^a   Sandoghdar, V ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLES; PLASMON RESONANCE; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (SNOM); SUPERCONTINUUM WHITE LIGHT;

GOLD;

EID: 4344632130     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.037401     Document Type: Article

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