Enhanced plasmonic behavior of bimetallic (Ag-Au) multilayered spheres

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Peña Rodríguez, Ovidio ^a   Pal, Umapada ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; GOLD ALLOYS; PLASMONICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; MULTIPLEXING; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TISSUE;

HUMAN TISSUES; INNER STRUCTURE; METAL DIELECTRICS; MULTI-LAYERED; NOVEL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PHOTOTHERMAL CANCER THERAPY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); NANOSHELLS; PLASMONIC; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

SILVER ALLOYS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84255183809     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-279     Document Type: Article

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