Tuning of localized surface plasmon resonance of well-ordered Ag/Au bimetallic nanodot arrays by laser interference lithography and thermal annealing

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Xu, Le ^a,b   Tan, Leng Seow ^b   Hong, Ming Hui ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; NANOLITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SILVER;

COMBINATION OF LASERS; EXTINCTION SPECTRA; LASER INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80155208278     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000G74     Document Type: Article

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