Direct near-field optical imaging of plasmonic resonances in metal nanoparticle pairs

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-172

  Lin, Hsing Ying ^a   Huang, Chen Han ^a   Chang, Chih Han ^a   Lan, Yun Chiang ^a   Chui, Hsiang Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FIELD DISTRIBUTION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HOT SPOT; INCIDENT POLARIZATION; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL IMAGING; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; OPTICAL BEHAVIOR; PLASMON COUPLING; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

CONTROL SURFACES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPES; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTRA;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 73549111986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000165     Document Type: Article

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