Fingers crossed: Optical activity of a chiral dimer of plasmonic nanorods

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 846-851

  Auguié, Baptiste ^a   Alonso Gómez, José Lorenzo ^a   Guerrero Martínez, Andrés ^a   Liz Marzán, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL DIMERS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTRA; EFFICIENT INTERACTION; EXCITON COUPLING; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; LARGE ANISOTROPY; NANOANTENNAS; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PLASMONIC; RETARDATION EFFECT; SMALL CLUSTERS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

CHROMOPHORES; DICHROISM; NANORODS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLASMONS;

DIMERS;

EID: 79955506524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200279x     Document Type: Article

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