Spectral properties and mechanism of instability of nanoengineered silver blocks

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10640-10646

  Wang, Li ^a   Xiong, Wei ^d   Nishijima, Yoshiaki ^b   Yokota, Yukie ^b   Ueno, Kosei ^b,c   Misawa, Hiroaki ^b   Bi, Gang ^d   Qiu, Jian Rong ^a,e  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY CITY COLLEGE   (China)

^e SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOBLOCKS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RED SHIFT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; STORAGE TIME; SULFIDATION;

SILVER;

EID: 79957614730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010640     Document Type: Article

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