Symmetry breaking in gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1521-1528

  Hu, Ying ^a   Noelck, Sterling J ^a   Drezek, Rebekah A ^a  

^a The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilayer nanoshells; Plasmon hybridization; Plasmonics; Surface charge distribution; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; MULTIPOLAR MODE; NANOSHELLS; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; PLASMONICS; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL SIMILARITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; VISUAL EXAMINATION;

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; GOLD; ION BEAMS; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SILICA; SURFACE CHARGE;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

GOLD; NANOSHELL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GOLD; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSHELLS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77950104858     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901743m     Document Type: Article

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