Gold nanoring trimers: A versatile structure for infrared sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22271-22282

  Teo, Siew Lang ^a   Lin, Vivian Kaixin ^a   Marty, Renaud ^b   Large, Nicolas ^b,c   Llado, Esther Alarcon ^a   Arbouet, Arnaud ^b   Girard, Christian ^b   Aizpurua, Javier ^c   Tripathy, Sudhiranjan ^a   Mlayah, Adnen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON BEAMS; GOLD; NANORINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; GOLD RINGS; INFRARED SENSING; INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANORESONATORS; NEAR INFRARED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL EXTINCTION; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PLASMONIC; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78049517287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022271     Document Type: Article

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