Heterodimers: Plasmonic properties of mismatched nanoparticle pairs

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 819-832

  Brown, Lisa V ^a   Sobhani, Heidar ^a   Lassiter, J Britt ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b   Halas, Naomi J ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimer; Diode effect; Electrostatic self assembly; Fano resonance; Plasmon hybridization

Indexed keywords

AVOIDED CROSSINGS; DARK-FIELD; DIODE EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; FANO RESONANCES; HETERODIMERS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MICRO SPECTROSCOPY; NANO-DIODE; NANO-SCALE GEOMETRIES; NANOPARTICLE PAIRS; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMON RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; SCATTERING SPECTRA;

ELECTROSTATICS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

RESONANCE;

EID: 77649115867     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9017312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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