Self-assembly of large-scale and ultrathin silver nanoplate films with tunable plasmon resonance properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 9082-9092

  Zhang, Xiao Yang ^a   Hu, Anming ^a,b   Zhang, Tong ^a   Lei, Wei ^a   Xue, Xiao Jun ^a   Zhou, Yunhong ^b   Duley, Walt W ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

localized surface plasmon resonance; plasmonics; scattering light; SERS; silver nanoplates

Indexed keywords

LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONICS; SCATTERING LIGHT; SERS; SILVER NANOPLATES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METALLIC FILMS; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

SILVER;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

DIMERIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 81855218282     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203336m     Document Type: Article

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