Optical properties of Au/Ag core/shell nanoshuttles

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 14288-14293

  Li, M ^a   Zhang, Z S ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Li, K Y ^a   Yu, X F ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AU NANO RODS; EXTINCTION CROSS SECTION; GLYCINE SOLUTIONS; GOLD NANOROD; LONGITUDINAL SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCES; NANOSHUTTLES; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

GOLD;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 51149083893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014288     Document Type: Article

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