Optical transmission measurements of silver, silver-gold alloy and silver-gold segmented nanorods in thin film alumina

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 46, 2008, Pages

  Evans, P R ^a   Hendren, W R ^a   Atkinson, R ^a   Pollard, R J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; GOLD; GOLD ALLOYS; GOLD DEPOSITS; NANORODS; RESONANCE; SILVER ALLOYS; SILVER DEPOSITS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

ALLOY COMPOSITIONS; GOLD NANORODS; LINEAR DEPENDENCES; MIXED SALTS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; PEAK POSITIONS; POROUS ALUMINAS; RESONANCE PEAKS; SILVER NANORODS; SPECTRAL POSITIONS; THIN FILM ALUMINAS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

SILVER;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM OXIDE; GOLD; NANOROD; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FILM; OPTICAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 58149252198     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/46/465708     Document Type: Article

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