Ultrafast manipulation of strong coupling in metal-molecular aggregate hybrid nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7559-7565

  Vasa, P ^a   Pomraenke, R ^a   Cirmi, G ^b   De Re, E ^b   Wang, W ^a   Schwieger, S ^c   Leipold, D ^c   Runge, E ^c   Cerullo, G ^b   Lienau, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

metal nanostructures; molecular aggregates; organic semiconductors; surface plasmon polaritons; time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR AGGREGATE; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

AGGREGATES; GOLD COATINGS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 78650732099     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101973p     Document Type: Article

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