Critical size for the observation of quantum confinement in optically excited gold clusters

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-17

  Varnavski, Oleg ^a   Ramakrishna, Guda ^b   Kim, Junhyung ^b   Lee, Dongil ^b,c   Goodson, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; AU CLUSTERS; CRITICAL SIZE; EXCITED VIBRATIONS; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; GOLD CLUSTERS; OPTICAL GAP; ORBITALS; SIZE RANGES; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ABSORPTION; GOLD COMPOUNDS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOSPHERE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 74849116759     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja907984r     Document Type: Article

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