Optical properties of gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19579-19591

  Hu, Ying ^a   Fleming, Ryan C ^a   Drezek, Rebekah A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTILAYERS; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA;

ANGULAR RADIATION; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMON RESONANCES; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SCATTERING INTENSITY; SPECTRAL MODULATION; SPECTRAL TUNABILITY; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

GOLD COATINGS;

EID: 56749104525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019579     Document Type: Article

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