Nonlinear optical properties of multi-metal nanocomposites in a glass matrix

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Garcia, Hernando ^a   Kalyanaraman, Ramki ^b   Sureshkumar, Radhakrishna ^c,d  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GLASS HOSTS; GLASS MATRICES; HASHIN-SHTRIKMAN; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MULTI-METALS; MULTICOMPONENTS; MULTIPLE METALS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONICS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; TERNARY COMPOSITES; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

GLASS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 70350690532     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/42/17/175401     Document Type: Article

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