Scaling of Surface Plasmon Resonances in Triangular Silver Nanoplate Sols for Enhanced Refractive Index Sensing

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 351-362

  Charles, Denise E ^a   Gara, Matthew ^a   Aherne, Damian ^a   Ledwith, Deirdre M ^a   Kelly, John M ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a   Brennan Fournet, Margaret E ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Linewidth; LSPR sensors; Platelet; Radiative damping

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956150221     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9211-x     Document Type: Article

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