Off-resonant optical excitation of gold nanorods: Nanoscale imprint of polarization surface charge distribution

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-11

  Deeb, Claire ^a   Zhou, Xuan ^a   Gérard, Davy ^a   Bouhelier, Alexandre ^b   Jain, Prashant K ^c   Plain, Jérôme ^a   Soppera, Olivier ^d   Royer, Pascal ^a   Bachelot, Renaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOROD; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE IMPRINTS; OFF-RESONANCE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; POLARIZATION SURFACE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE POLARIZATION CHARGE;

CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANORODS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 78651246485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz1014696     Document Type: Article

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