Calculation of one- and two-photon absorption spectra of thiolated gold nanoclusters using time-dependent density functional theory

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2809-2821

  Day, Paul N ^a,b   Nguyen, Kiet A ^a,c   Pachter, Ruth ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS   (United States)

^c UES INC   (United States)

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EID: 77956569861     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct100139t     Document Type: Article

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