Effects of symmetry breaking and conductive contact on the plasmon coupling in gold nanorod dimers

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4657-4666

  Slaughter, Liane S ^a   Wu, Yanpeng ^a   Willingham, Britain A ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b   Link, Stephan ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold nanorods; Nanoparticle dimers; Plasmon coupling; Plasmon hybridization; Single particle spectroscopy; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOROD; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; SINGLE-PARTICLE; SURFACE PLASMONS;

DIMERS; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 78149278985     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1011144     Document Type: Article

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