Tuning surface plasmons in interconnected hemispherical Au shells

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 534-546

  Krohne Nielsen, Peter ^a   Novikov, Sergey M ^a   Beermann, Jonas ^a   Morgen, Per ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a   Albrektsen, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GOLD COATINGS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANODIZED ALUMINUM; CONTACT AREAS; DIELECTRIC CORE; FILM ROUGHNESS; HIGH FIELD; HOT SPOT; LASER WAVELENGTH; METAL FILM; METAL THICKNESS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OUTER DIAMETERS; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL POSITION; SURFACE PLASMONS; TUNABILITIES; TWO-PHOTON LUMINESCENCE;

GOLD;

GOLD; NANOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; LIGHT; NANOSPHERES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84855446854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000534     Document Type: Article

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