Near-field coupling effect between individual Au nanospheres and their Supporting SiO2/Si substrate

Plasmonics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-109

  Du, Chao Ling ^a,b   You, Yu Meng ^b   Johnson, Kasim ^b   Hu, Hai Long ^b   Zhang, Xue Jin ^b   Shen, Ze Xiang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Au nanosphere; Far field optical reflection contrast spectroscopy (FORCS); Localized surface plasmon (LSP); Near field coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952585125     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-009-9122-2     Document Type: Article

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