Atomically flat single-crystalline gold nanostructures for plasmonic nanocircuitry

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Jer Shing ^a,d   Callegari, Victor ^b   Geisler, Peter ^a   Brüning, Christoph ^a   Kern, Johannes ^a   Prangsma, Jord C ^a   Wu, Xiaofei ^a   Feichtner, Thorsten ^a   Ziegler, Johannes ^a   Weinmann, Pia ^a   Kamp, Martin ^a   Forchel, Alfred ^a   Biagioni, Paolo ^c   Sennhauser, Urs ^b   Hecht, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON BEAM; GOLD STANDARD; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOFABRICATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79251540556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1143     Document Type: Article

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