Distance dependent spectral tuning of two coupled metal nanoparticles

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1174-1178

  Olk, Phillip ^a   Renger, Jan ^b   Wenzel, Marc T ^a   Eng, Lukas M ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; POLARIZATION; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AU NANOPARTICLES; COUPLED PLASMONS; EXCITATION LIGHTS; FIBER PROBES; INTER-PARTICLE COUPLINGS; INTER-PARTICLE DISTANCES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PERIODIC MODULATIONS; RELATIVE ORIENTATIONS; SCATTERED LIGHTS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS; SPECTRAL POSITIONS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL TUNING; SPECTRAL WIDTHS;

GOLD;

EID: 56349103943     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl080044m     Document Type: Article

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