Managing light polarization via plasmon-molecule interactions within an asymmetric metal nanoparticle trimer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 16448-16453

  Shegai, Timur ^a   Li, Zhipeng ^b   Dadosh, Tali ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^c,d   Xu, Hongxing ^b,e   Haran, Gilad ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Generalized mie theory; Plasmonics; Single molecule Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 55949115696     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808365105     Document Type: Article

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