Plasmonic spheroidal metal nanoshells showing larger tunability and stronger near fields than their spherical counterparts: An effect of enhanced plasmon coupling

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 374-378

  Hooshmand, Nasrin ^a   Jain, Prashant K ^b   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE DIMENSION; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GOLD NANOSHELLS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOPATICLES; NANOPLASMONICS; NANOSHELLS; NEAR FIELDS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; OUTER SURFACE; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMONIC; RED SHIFT; SHELL THICKNESS; SPHEROIDAL GEOMETRY; SPHEROIDAL NANOSHELLS; TUNABILITIES;

DOPPLER EFFECT; GEOMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS; SPHERES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 79952325724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200034j     Document Type: Article

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