Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7245, 2009, Pages 410-413

  Zijlstra, Peter ^a   Chon, James W M ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOROD;

DATA ACQUISITION; GOLD; LUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OPTICAL DENSITY; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 66249132688     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08053     Document Type: Article

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