High-order nonlinearity of silica-gold nanoshells in chloroform at 1560 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21636-21644

  Falcao Filho E L ^a   Barbosa Silva, R ^a   Sobral Filho, R G ^a   Brito Silva, A M ^a   Galembeck, A ^a   De Araújo, Cid B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SILICA;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS; FOUR-ORDER; GOLD NANOSHELLS; GOLD NANOSPHERES; HIGH-ORDER; NEAR INFRARED; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES; PLASMONICS; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; THERMAL INFLUENCE; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

GOLD;

CHLOROFORM; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; CHLOROFORM; ELECTRONS; GOLD; HOT TEMPERATURE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78049502763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021636     Document Type: Article

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