Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) of surface plasmons in single silver nanoparticles and dimers: Influence of beam damage and mapping of dark modes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3015-3022

  Koh, Ai Leen ^a   Bao, Kui ^b   Khan, Imran ^a,e   Smith, W Ewen ^c   Kothleitner, Gerald ^d   Nordlander, Peter ^b   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Mccomb, David W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Localized surface plasmon; Plasmon hybridization model; Scanning transmission electron microscopy; Silver nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; BEAM DAMAGE; ELECTRON BEAM DAMAGE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROMETERS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMON ENERGY; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION MODEL; PLASMON MODES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMONS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; NANOPARTICLES; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SPECIMEN PREPARATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70350634138     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900922z     Document Type: Article

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