Plasmonics enhancement of a luminescent or raman-active layer in a multilayered metallic nanoshell

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 5040-5049

  Norton, Stephen J ^a   Vo Dinh, Tuan ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; SILVER;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; FAR-FIELD SCATTERING; LORENTZ-DRUDE MODELS; METALLIC CORES; METALLIC NANOSHELL; MULTILAYERED NANOSPHERES; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS;

LUMINESCENCE;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70349495366     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005040     Document Type: Article

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