Damping of acoustic vibrations in gold nanoparticles

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 492-495

  Pelton, Matthew ^a   Sader, John E ^b   Burgin, Julien ^c,d   Liu, Mingzhao ^a,c,e   Guyot Sionnest, Philippe ^c   Gosztola, David ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; DAMPING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACOUSTIC VIBRATION; HIGH FREQUENCY ACOUSTICS; INHOMOGENEITIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; PARAMETER-FREE MODELING; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ENERGY TRANSFER; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

EID: 68949172359     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.192     Document Type: Article

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