Metal nanoparticle ensembles: Tunable laser pulses distinguish monomer from dimer vibrations

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3685-3689

  Jais, Pablo M ^a   Murray, Daniel B ^b   Merlin, Roberto ^c   Bragas, Andrea V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

acoustic vibrations; Gold nanoparticles; stimulated Brillouin scattering; time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VIBRATION; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; EXCITATION PROCESS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; RESONANT INTERACTION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TUNABLE LASER PULSE;

DIMERS; LASER PULSES; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; MONOMERS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

GOLD; METAL; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; DIMERIZATION; GOLD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICS; POLYMERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VIBRATION;

EID: 80052807769     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl201648e     Document Type: Article

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