Versatile solution phase triangular silver nanoplates for highly sensitive plasmon resonance sensing

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-64

  Charles, Denise E ^a   Aherne, Damian ^b   Gara, Matthew ^b   Ledwith, Deirdre M ^c   Gun'ko, Yurii K ^b   Kelly, John M ^b   Blau, Werner J ^a   Brennan Fournet, Margaret E ^c  

^a School of Physics   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR); Refractive index; Sensitivity; Sensor; Silver nanostructures

Indexed keywords

AFM; APPROXIMATION METHODS; AT-WAVELENGTH; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION METHOD; EDGE LENGTH; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; KEY PARAMETERS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANO-PLATE; NIR REGIONS; NIR WAVELENGTH; OPTIMAL SENSITIVITY; PEAK WAVELENGTH; PLASMON RESONANCES; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SILVER NANOPLATES; SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLUTION PHASE; SUCROSE CONCENTRATION; TEM; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUNABILITIES; UPPER LIMITS; UV-VIS-NIR SPECTROSCOPY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPECT RATIO; CHEMICAL SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT REFRACTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASMONS; PRESSURE DROP; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILVER; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; SILVER; SOLUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 75749126173     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9016235     Document Type: Article

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