Single-particle spectroscopy of gold nanorods beyond the quasi-static limit: Varying the width at constant aspect ratio

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4934-4938

  Slaughter, Liane S ^a   Chang, Wei Shun ^a   Swanglap, Pattanawit ^a   Tcherniak, Alexei ^a   Khanal, Bishnu P ^a   Zubarev, Eugene R ^a   Link, Stephan ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY DETECTORS; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; FULL SPECTRUM; GOLD NANOROD; HIGHER ORDER; LOW ASPECT RATIO; NEW STRATEGY; PHASE RETARDATION; PLASMON MODES; QUASI-STATIC; RED SHIFT; RED-SHIFTED; SINGLE-PARTICLE; SINGLE-PARTICLE SPECTRA; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; THEORETICAL MODELING;

CAMERAS; GOLD; NANORODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; PLASMONS; PRESSURE DROP; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 77949827501     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp101272w     Document Type: Article

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