Coupling modes of gold trimer superstructures

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1950, 2011, Pages 3472-3482

  Funston, Alison M ^a   Davis, Timothy J ^b   Novo, Carolina ^a   Paul, Mulvaney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eigenmode; Gold nanorod.; Plasmon coupling; Plasmon hybridization; Surface plasmon resonance; Trimer

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GOLD; NANORODS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EIGEN MODES; GOLD NANOROD; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRIMER;

OLIGOMERS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052997971     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0012     Document Type: Article

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