Tuning the electronic coupling and magnetic moment of a metal nanoparticle dimer in the nonlinear dielectric-response regime

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4452-4455

  Troparevsky, M Claudia ^a,b   Ke, Zhao ^a,b   Xiao, Di ^b   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a,b   Eguiluz, Adolfo G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; FIELD STRENGTHS; HOMO-LUMO GAPS; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; MAGNETIC DEGREES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MULTIFUNCTIONALITY; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATE; NEW APPROACHES; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NONLINEAR DIELECTRIC; NONMAGNETICS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; STARK SHIFT;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOPARTICLES;

SILVER;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 71949089597     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9027389     Document Type: Article

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