Plasmonic activity of large-area gold nanodot arrays on arbitrary substrates

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-51

  Mäder, Marisa ^a   Höche, Thomas ^a   Gerlach, Jürgen W ^a   Perlt, Susanne ^a   Dorfmüller, Jens ^b   Saliba, Michael ^b   Vogelgesang, Ralf ^b   Kern, Klaus ^b   Rauschenbach, Bernd ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser ablation; Metallic nanodots; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

BULK SUBSTRATES; CHEMICAL INERTNESS; FOCUSING ELEMENTS; GOLD DOT; MASK PROJECTION; NANO-DOT ARRAYS; NANODOTS; NEAR-FIELD; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; GOLD; LASER ABLATION; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PLASMONS;

SUBSTRATES;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOMATERIAL; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GOLD; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 74849117087     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl903633z     Document Type: Article

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